Word: woodworking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a man who has dropped a piano from a great height, the U.S. last week began gingerly assessing the wreckage of President Kennedy's hopeful new hemisphere Alliance for Progress. The Cuban crash still echoed throughout Latin America, and much woodwork was splintered. But after examination, it seemed as if the instrument might still be made to play...
...home to their own tastes. By the time the two children, Caroline and John Jr., got home from their Palm Beach vacations, Jackie had their rooms ready. Caroline found most of her white bedroom furniture from the Georgetown N Street house in a pale pink room with white woodwork and old-fashioned chintz curtains. Little John, now 9½ Ibs. and smiling broadly, was bedded down next door in a white room with white woodwork. He slept in the same white wicker bassinette that was used by his mother and his sister...
Sharp-tongued, curmudgeon-like though I am, I never said that some 20,000 fine voters in the 29th N.Y. Congressional District "every four years crawl out of their Hudson Gothic woodwork to vote for William McKinley." The crawling-out-of-woodwork metaphor was an added touch by the New York Times writer; he had an unusually fine prose style, given to flourishes which, as he might put it, bode well for a career in journalism. I did remark, sadly, how certain voters up here seem to pledge fealty every four years to William McKinley, but just...
...more than any politician I know." Not that it was likely to make much difference. "If this were not a presidential year, I might have a chance," he admitted. "As it is, every four years, about 20,000 extra people crawl out of their Hudson Gothic woodwork up here to vote for William McKinley." From at least one supporter, Vidal prefers silent devotion-"Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has endorsed me, but we don't dare have her appear; the Roosevelt name is still murder up here...
...architecture, the European need only visit the Cloisters on the Hudson to see what has happened. There, in one "arbitrary hodgepodge," are the Saint-Guilhem cloister, the chapter house of Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut, woodwork from the House of Francis I in Abbeville, the cloisters of Cuxa and Bonnefont. Concludes Gaya-Nuňo: "The whole of Europe is nothing but a Flea Market that waits, full of anxiety and emotion, for the arrival of the nouveáu riche...