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Pedigree. Ernst went to the University of Bonn, studying philosophy, and psychiatry at a time, 1909, when the subject was barely acknowledged as a discipline. After serving in the German artillery in World War I, he continued painting, and eventually reached Paris at a time when Dada was in full...
Snob Appeal. It is not by accident that backgammon has been rediscovered. Ten years ago, Prince Alexis ("Obie") Obolensky, a member of the jet set and a shrewd entrepreneur, set out to make backgammon a popular game. Phase 1 of his elaborate strategy was to exploit backgammon's snob...
Discounting the usual nostalgia and regret that well up in seniors around commencement time, I have nonetheless often been haunted by the intensity with which this senior spoke, almost as if pleading with me at the beginning of my career as a teacher to attend to the problem, to make...
Johnson was always haunted by the past. He loved to relate lugubrious tales of family poverty, even though the Johnsons were actually quite well off by the standards-of the Texas of his time. Lyndon's father had earned a teacher's certificate and was active in state...
When Truman gave up the haunted house he never really liked and retired to private life, he had a chilly meeting with his successor, Dwight Eisenhower. Margaret describes their drive together to Ike's inauguration.