Word: mornings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...cast the noose of morn...
...beginning collector years ago, Gulbenkian did not always show classic taste. He fell in love with, and bought, the original of the popular old chromo, September Morn, a fact which embarrasses him nowadays. But few experts could criticize the taste, or the diversity, of a collection which included prime examples of Hals, Gainsborough, Degas and Manet. His crystalline views of Venice by Francesco Guardi were matched against a soft, misty one by Corot. He contrasted Stefan Lochner's strict, gothic Presentation in the Temple with a tasty chunk of cheesecake by Francois Boucher, entitled Cupid and the Graces. Clearly...
Just 45 seconds from Broadway, the Times is temperamentally as remote from its hurly-burly as if it were in the mountains of Tibet. In the white marble lobby is a sentimental inscription chosen by Publisher Sulzberger: "Every day is a fresh beginning . . . Every morn is the world made new." The house that Ochs built and Sulzberger expanded is softly lighted and handsomely equipped, from the 88 presses and 106 linotypes to the pink-walled ladies' washrooms. In the soundproofed third-floor city room no one ever runs and few raise their voices; on the tenth-floor the editorial...