Word: ladders
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However stilted, the painting conjures up the ideal of a bygone age, giving to history a heroic sense rather than data processing it. Leutze even persuaded his exacting student Albert Bierstadt, then 24 (later to become one of the chief chroniclers of the Rocky Mountain landscape), to climb a ladder and touch up the bright sky on the left. There was precious little tranquillity that he could add to the blood-and-thunder turbulence of gun smoke...
...crowd scenes in his blue 1962 lithograph, Stunt Man I. Each of an edition of 37 now costs upwards of $200, if one can be found. Though no longer so cheap, graphics are still finer for many than are oils. There may be no end to Saint Jakob's ladder...
...close victory over Penn leaves little optimism for Harvard's chances against Princeton today. The Tigers' top three players are about equal to Penn's but Princeton has more depth. Harvard will have to win heavily in the middle of the ladder if its hopes to come home with the Ivy Title...
...writes Methodist Pastor Charles Merrill Smith in How to Be come a Bishop Without Being Religious (Doubleday; $3.50). The devils that Smith wants to exorcise are the phony pietism and the trivial hypocrisy that many a Protestant pastor has to indulge in if he intends to climb the hierarchical ladder of his church...
What Harvard fears, though, is Penn's new depth. If the Crimson cannot win decisively at the bottom of the ladder, Penn may pull the big upset...