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...scarcity of 10-man parties has been partially offset by the installation of a bar in the fourth floor Bingham common room by Sandoval's rooming group. "We go permission after the fact," Sandoval says...
...this story for decades." In the interim, though, Ted made his mark in journalism. He joined TIME in 1987 after serving eight years on the investigative staff at the Washington Post, where his work won a Pulitzer nomination, a George Polk Award, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Worth Bingham Prize. Since bringing his energies to TIME, he has chronicled the illegal trade in elephant ivory, brought attention to the endangered spotted owl, documented corruption in college basketball and scrutinized the plight of West Virginia coal miners...
...with a stern eye for fat in a budget, he honed his concentration and competitive skills as a 145-lb. wrestler at Phillips Academy. "It sure taught me to be tenacious," he says. Greg also discovered a passion for politics, working after college as a legislative assistant for Jonathan Bingham, a Democratic Congressman from the Bronx...
Among the painters of this myth were George Catlin, friend of the explorer William Clark and indefatigable painter of native tribes; George Caleb Bingham, that vigorous orderer of American genre scenes; the landscapists Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran; and a host of lesser figures, who also played their part in the creation of a heroic imagery of national conquest. And here the difficulty rises, for Americans still wish to believe in the "historical" truth of their icons, which is what such pictures have become...
...fascinating to see how prototypes from older art were adapted to the artists' ends. Thus the motif of Moses leading the Exodus becomes Bingham's image of Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap toward the promised land; thus the buckskin-clad immigrant and his family are consciously meant to evoke Joseph, Mary and Jesus on the flight into Egypt. The religious imagery sometimes amounts to a suffocating pietism, but that was America too. It still...