Word: frederick
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...William Cullen Bryant, nature poet and editor, urged him in a sonnet not to be seduced by the humanized, picturesque Europe--to "keep that earlier, wilder image bright." After Cole's early death, that image was to get wilder and brighter still in the work of his only pupil, Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900). Descended from six generations of Yankee ministers and merchants, patriotic and deeply religious, Church inherited Cole's belief in a style of landscape suffused with "a language strong, moral and imaginative." His paintings--mostly of the Hudson Valley and vistas of South American grandeur--were greeted...
Perhaps the most interesting painter to reflect this mood was John Frederick Peto (1854-1907), who specialized in eye-fooling, hypernaturalistic still life. In his work, the image of the martyred Lincoln recurs frequently, to the point of obsession, usually taking the form of a daguerreotype pinned to the board or pushed under a tape. Peto was praised for what Americans traditionally liked, skill and illusionistic power (How the hell did he do that?). But his deeper anxiety and the hints of an imperiled social order, reflected in the entropy of his objects, were lost on viewers...
Designed in 1872 by Frederick Law Olmsted and planted by Charles S. Sargent, the Arboretum is Harvard's "living museum" for scientific study and public use. It is located near the Orange Line's Forest Hill stop
Glynn Tipton, for example, is expected to testify that he talked with McVeigh at a drag race in Topeka, Kansas, and that McVeigh was seeking two bombmaking chemicals. Frederick Alan Schlender, the manager of the Mid-Kansas Coop in McPherson, Kansas, will testify that on Sept. 30, 1994, someone closely resembling Nichols bought 40 bags of ammonium nitrate, weighing 50 lbs. apiece. On Oct. 18, Schlender has said, he bought another 50 lbs. During a pretrial hearing in February, Schlender testified that the man "said he was a wheat farmer. It was an unusual transaction. It wasn't common...
...Walter C. Willett, Frederick Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the School of Public Health, says the verdict is still out on soy milk's benefits...