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...garden of her Venice palazzetto. Instead, on this warm June afternoon, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection registrar's charge is Alberto Giacometti's 1.5-m bronze Standing Woman, 1947, whose elegantly elongated frame appears like an apparition a few meters from Guggenheim's grave, where it usually guards the benefactress' Byzantine garden seat. "It's a beautiful work, and it's nice here," Rosin muses. "It's well located in front of the throne of Peggy...
This interest in history is essential, because each Minute Man must research his character in depth. For instance, Forman portrays John Hosmer, a young man who was set to attend Harvard until his benefactress, Madam Ryall, died. Instead, Hosmer became a shoemaker and Minute Man who survived the war and was around in 1835 to see the first reenactment...
...Zheng's front page report on the donation ("Couple Donates Record $13M To Law School," news story, Oct. 7, 1994), Mrs. Hauser's professional should be relegated to the third-to-the-last paragraph, printed on page seven. It seems, to say the least, disrespectful to the benefactress and, by extension, disrespectful to the future professional women of Harvard University...
THIS DESIRE to unite his "two minds" and escape the horror of his past leads Brill to America. There, with the aid of a rich benefactress, he founds a primary school devoted to "the fusion of scholarly Europe and burnished Jerusalem...astronomers and God-praises uniting in a majestic dream of peace." However, his impatience and frustration with the mediocrity of both students and teachers soon causes his sense of alienation to resurface. Not until Hester Lilt, a renowned academic, enrolls her daughter Beulah in the school does Brill begin to show a genuine interest in the progress...
...than 2½ acres. The decree hit Bargème like a battering ram: many villagers, it turned out, had hoped to parcel off their own land at premium prices to wealthy Parisian weekenders. Led by fighting-mad Mayor Isnard, a local tanner, Bargème turned on its benefactress...