Word: transatlanticism
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Much of the fighting force was airlifted, despite some notable logistical handicaps. Initially, Cuban planes refueled for the long transatlantic flight at Barbados, but the U.S. pressured that island's government to stop such military flights. The Portuguese government eventually refused to let the Cubans refuel in the Azores...
The pride of many an English country church is its brass-not the personages in the pews but the medieval nobles whose likenesses, engraved on brass plates, are lovingly laid into parish floor and wall. Their lively presences have long been prized by those Americans who, on pilgrimage, spend long...
No Lullabies. Their music is climbing the pop charts in England, which is surprising - not because they are Irish, but because they sing no songs and in stead spin out purified instrumentals of the reel, jig, slide, Kerry polka and other such traditional forms. On their last two visits to...
She has dated the nephew of a millionaire nobleman, gone dancing with a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, and partied with pop celebrities like Andy Warhol. After some nervous transatlantic phone calls from Mother, Caroline Kennedy, an art student at Sotheby's, may be adopting a lower profile. For...
When Nadelman died in New York in 1946, his name vanished as suddenly as a stone into a well; and yet, for the first 50 years of his life, he had been the epitome of worldly-and, to an extent, aesthetic-success. Born in 1882 into a cultivated family of...