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...scholar in medieval art, a pioneer in contemporary art, but most of all a great teacher," Coolidge said. "He was the father of the department. I don't think he ever had a student or colleague who wasn't fond...
James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, called Deknatel "one of the most sympathetic people" he had ever known. "Everybody loved him," Ackerman said. "He was the father of the department. I don't think he ever had a student or colleague who wasn't fond...
Lewis calls his 18th century colonial home Strawberry Hill after the gothic castle that Walpole designed for himself in Twickenham. He shares other Walpolian intersts: he is fond of art and antiques, carries on a voluminous correspondence of his own, and spends his spare time writing essays. Besides continuing the Yale volumes, Lewis is currently working on a book of essays about literature he has particularly enjoyed. In a chapter on Cicero's De Senectute, Lewis has written: "Ardent collectors are among the happiest of men because age does not weaken their rapacity." Clearly, Wilmarth Lewis is among...
Despite his age, Ball shows no signs of frailty in or out of the courtroom. Up by 7, he plays nine holes of golf before going to work. (His home is on the 16th fairway of his club.) He is also fond of good food and good wines. Nonetheless, most evenings he is in bed by 7 so that he can settle down and read for a few hours-"anything or everything from briefs to biographies...
...look more and more like one of her dummies. The Platters, the Walker Broth ers and Giuseppe Verdi furnish the music, the art director furnishes the flat-outside of which the movie never strays-and Fassbinder furnishes still another reason why West German movies are regarded with as much fond anticipation as major surgery...