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...lifetime was recognized as perhaps the greatest painter of his era, knew his full share of both wealth and derision. Born to a Covent Garden barber in 1775, he was admitted at 14 as a student in the Royal Academy. At 27, he was elected a full-fledged academician. The works that won him fame, however, were hardly revolutionary. During his earlier years, Turner churned out Old Testament fantasies, nymphs cavorting in arcadian glades, and historical scenarios of such newsworthy topics as the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar...
...French Academician Francois Mauriac, Nobel Prize novelist (Therese), biographer (Life of Jesus), political polemicist and poet, first became aware of Charles de Gaulle during the long night of German occupation. Unlike many of his countrymen, Mauriac has kept his vision of De Gaulle shining ever since. In this odd book-neither a biography nor a wholly accurate account of De Gaulle's politics but a kind of personal political devotional-Mauriac, 80, tries to explain just what it is about De Gaulle that commands his fealty. He attests that he is not obsessed with De Gaulle, but, unhappily, this...
Purity and Joy. For artistic success was not something that came easily to this provincial grain merchant's son. His first student efforts look as if they had been painted in a damp attic. He laboriously copied Louvre masterpieces, lasted only a few days as a student of Academician William-Adolphe Bouguereau, who told him, "You will never learn how to draw...
...group who did not go to college. This is a minor point, but the inaccuracy here is representative of the general inaccuracy of the entire piece. (God save us if appearing over WHRB, which many of the Fellows have done, is now the mark of the well-rounded academician or scholar...
...will offset the lucrative salaries, light teaching loads, and promise of earlier tenure appointments offered to Harvard junior faculty members by other universities. Most young instructors leave Harvard because staying is pointless--and that is unchanged by the Warren Center. Harvard can be a dead end for an aspiring academician--there are already just too many good people competing for two few senior posts. Increasing the number of non-tenured faculty members only means there will be more competing for those few positions...