Word: quaintly
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...years since laequeline Kennedy first insisted that her husband wanted a memorial at the MBTA subway yards in Harvard Square, one thing was always certain: something--either a full-blown memorial with everything from cinemas to rocking chairs or a quaint brick library, accessible and interesting only to scholars, would be built on the site...
...paintings: they promise a fulfilled world where the humors are no longer at war, where mind is no longer in conflict with body-in short, an earthly paradise, that fantasy of a prelapsarian Arcadia restored in the wildernesses of the new world. No wonder Hicks looks so quaint in 1975. For 50 years since his "rediscovery," he has been thought to be the best of all American primitive painters whose works survive from the 19th century-not because he was a great instinctive draftsman like the Douanier Rousseau but because his whole way of imagining the world derives from...
...Nights in A Barroom is an old-fashioned Victorian melodrama played for all its worth and given a double edge of irony by its quaint moralism In the temperance spirit, the show offers beer for only a dime a glass. This is a most unusual dramatic production for Harvard, a piece of American social history as well as a piece of popular literature. You may never be able to see a piece of nineteenth century soap opera like this again, at least until it's produced on Masterpiece Theatre. At the Agassiz tonight, tomorrow and Saturday...
...Saturday Evening Post from 1942 to 1961; of leukemia; in Penn Valley, Pa. Newsman Hibbs earned a reputation as "the most quoted young squirt in Kansas" by age 27. He took over at Satevepost in 1942 and managed to revitalize the faltering weekly by sharpening its quaint cover style (while retaining the beloved Norman Rockwell), commissioning more investigative stories, and softening its sometimes automatic conservatism. The Post ran into problems again and suspended publication in 1969; it has since reappeared as a monthly...
...school and underneath the pictures, in white ink, I wrote, "my best friend, Sara; my second best friend, Debbie; my school..." I still occasionally leaf through those pictures because they conjure up memories and associations, but I suspect that if a stranger found my book, he would think it quaint and naive, but little else...