Word: scottish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louise Miller Rowland, a New York judge's wife who died prematurely-and the sensitively modeled face confirms the epitaph. More characteristic of Saint-Gaudens' portraiture is the low relief of the children of New York Lawyer Prescott Hall Butler. To the two sturdy boys in their Scottish kilts, the sculptor has brought the understanding of a psychologist. The youngster on the left looks ahead, stolid and unafraid, but his older brother is already touched with care, and places his arm protectively around the younger. Dr. Henry Shiff, an intimate of Saint-Gaudens, was a surgeon...
...almost impossible for people in the public eye to escape from rumors. That paragon of puritanical virtue, Queen Victoria, was thought by some of her contemporaries to be the secret wife of Disraeli or the secret mistress of her Scottish gillie, John Brown. Since rumor sometimes represents vicarious wish fulfillment, certain movie stars have been popularly credited with sexual exploits that defy physical ability...
...living substitute found in Scotland... an orphan from Edinburgh named William Campbell... Minor plastic surgery was required to complete the image." Not only did Campbell look amazingly like McCartney, according to LaBour, but "the difference in voice timbre between the original and phony Paul... was so slight" that the Scottish orphan was able to sound the same as Paul...
...McHarg is a 48-year-old landscape architect who delights conservationists with eloquent speeches that blast man the polluter as "a blind, witless, lowbrow, anthropocentric clod." With his Scottish burr, fierce beard and piercing eyes, McHarg is a cross between Jeremiah and a kind of male Rachel Carson. He is not only a symbol of rising anger at environmental abuses, but a successful practitioner of the hard art of stopping those abuses. In his new book, Design with Nature, which Lewis Mumford calls "a vision of organic exuberance and human delight," McHarg clearly shows that the main obstacle to saving...
McHarg's dreams were interrupted by World War II and his seven years' service as a British paratroop officer. Later, at Harvard, he earned three degrees in three years and picked up a case of tuberculosis. As a noted Scottish city planner, he was invited in 1954 by the University of Pennsylvania to found the first American department of landscape architecture and regional planning. He now teaches at Penn, is a partner in a planning firm and preaches what he practices all over...