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...name of the British pottery firm, founded in 1759, connotes what Steuben does to glass or Gobelin to tapestries. Today Wedgwood, under the direction of the founder's great-great-great-grandson, has kept pace with the 20th century, has a complete line of modern ceramic ware. But the firm still continues to make many of the wares that Josiah Wedgwood originally designed. Not a whit of the craftsmanship that makes Wedgwood endure has changed. A current exhibition at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh. Wis., brings together nearly 700 pieces of early Wedgwood, showing that...
...most liberal and scientific minds of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the 200th anniversary of the year when his cream-colored earthenware so impressed Queen Charlotte I that she made Wedgwood her court potter and ordered that pearly pottery be called Queen's Ware. The works were fit even for an empress, and Catherine the Great of Russia ordered a Queen's Ware dinner and dessert service of 952 pieces in what was Wedgwood's largest commission...
James Bevel, an SCLC minister who wears overalls and an embroidered skull cap, pushed his way through the crowd shouting pleas for nonviolence. Forman, Willie Ricks, and Ben Ware, all of SNCC, stood on orange crates in the middle of the streets and yelled for silence. Meanwhile Negro teenagers on the sidewalks gathered bricks and bottles and screamed along with many white Northern students, "Get the cops. Don't let 'em get away with it this time...
Johnson warned his audience to be ware of Republican diversionary strategy. "When I was a boy, the folks that molded the opinion kept us debating whether we were wet or dry, Prohibition or anti-Prohibition." Today, Johnson declared, speaking figuratively, his opponents "are going to try to bring up the old wet and dry fight, or some other old fight that will prejudice you. But the time has come when we no longer listen to those who oppose for opposition's sake...
...Bierweiler retired as curator of botanical collections, but until recently, he continued to work in the museum part-time, coming in every day to check on the flowers or arrange other exhibits. During his 56 years of active service, more than seven million tourists came to see the Ware Collection of Glass Flowers...