…vocal works by Mahler, Beethoven and Vaughan Williams, and the premiere of Aaron Copland's Connotations, a serial-work that was merely politely received. During the interval Bernstein kissed the cheek of the President's wife Jacqueline Kennedy, a break with protocol that was commented on at ...
…f notjust as long as it's the best."[43] Working with Rachel Lambert Mellon, she oversaw redesign and replanting of the White House Rose Garden and the East Garden, which was renamed the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden after her husband's assassination. Her efforts on behalf of restoration and pre...
…sociable and debonair". A biographer described him: "A well-dressed, courtly man with silvery back-combed hair and a gentle manner, he bore no resemblance to a fiend." Figuratively a ladykiller, Addams accompanied women such as Greta Garbo, Joan Fontaine, and Jacqueline Kennedy on social occ...
…eddy than it did me. So, now he's annoyed."[4] Other sources, such as Thomas C. Reeves' A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy, state that Kennedy was upset with the parodies, and that Jacqueline Kennedy was furious, even demanding that the President keep Meader off radio and tel...
…She has been compared to Jacqueline Kennedy due to her sense of style,[113] and also to Barbara Bush for her discipline and decorum.[126][127] Obama's style has been described as "fashion populist".[32] In 2010, she wore clothes, many high end, from more than 50 design companies with less ex...
…e Joffrey Ballets long list of firsts includes being the first dance company to perform at the White House at Jacqueline Kennedys invitation, the first to appear on American television, the first classical dance company to use multi-media, the first to create a ballet set to rock music, the ...