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Kishlansky's address, titled "A Matter of Arrangement: Writing as an Historian," was the inaugural Gordon Gray Faculty Lecture on The Craft of Scholarly Writing...
...than curves; and yet, as anyone can see in Holland, the flat horizons and punctuating verticals of mill and steeple must have affected him right from the start. The momentum of his work begins with landscape--the delicate screens and friezes of trees above watery meadows, in their pearly gray light. The color explodes in 1908 with his Mill in Sunlight, an orgiastic response to Van Gogh, blazing with flakes of crimson and ultramarine against a sky of lemon yellow and pale blue; it is stabilized in another painting of a red mill done in 1911--its dark red trunk...
Other paintings in the exhibit showed a similar lack of community. Hotel rooms and trains, one person in each, dominate Hopper's landscape; gray office buildings and solitary Cape Cod houses illuminated by eerie winter light are de rigeur. His colors are often lurid, with chartreuse green on a living room wall where the floral wallpaper should be, and his subjects' eyes are often mere black dots...
...deal closes several military loopholes that led to cheating during past truces. It gives commanders five days to get the word out to isolated units, and it bans not only offensive maneuvers but also gray-area operations such as patrols and reconnaissance "forward of friendly positions," sniper fire and laying of mines. U.N. peacekeeping forces already on the ground are to monitor the cease-fire...
...national sales tax on goods and services. To prevent the system from being too regressive, he would exempt certain foods and medicine and not tax the first $5,000 worth of purchases. "Every dollar you earn is yours," he says. This is greeted with scattered clapping, but when a gray-haired matron hears him peg the sales tax at 17%, she exclaims, "Lordy...