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...idea that the goal of creative effort lay outside the field of allegory and moral precept was quite new in the 1860s, when Degas was coming to maturity as a painter. The highest art was still history painting, in which France had reigned supreme; but since 1855 practically the whole generation of history painters on whom this elevation depended -- above all, Delacroix and Ingres -- had died, and no one seemed fit to replace them. French critics and artists alike, and conservative ones in particular, felt a tremor of crisis, & as others would a century later as the masters of modernism...
...rules of thumb that govern emergency medicine, one of the most basic is to get the patient to the nearest hospital -- and fast. More and more, however, that precept, designed to save lives, has gone awry. In medical centers and hospitals across the country, disorganized, underfunded and understaffed emergency services are on the critical list. In Chicago not long ago, a fire-department rescue team rushed a 19-year-old gunshot victim to a nearby hospital emergency room unfamiliar with such cases. Within hours the patient, who had been alert and in satisfactory condition, began to fail. The hospital staff...
...lieutenant colonel wearing a medal-bedecked uniform while invoking the Fifth Amendment, furtive Moscow nights of sex for secrets. Says former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, a twice-wounded Marine veteran of Korea: "When I saw 200-plus Marines in Beirut bunched up in violation of every standard precept, I winced a lot. When I saw Ollie North, I winced a lot. And Moscow. It just killed...
...first show in March 1982. Gigli, who dislikes being photographed, firmly resists intimations of Japanese influence. When he remarks, however, that "my clothes have no shape when they're on the hanger, but they take on shape when they're worn," there are distinct echoes of the Eastern precept that the shape of a garment comes from the wearer's body and is not imposed upon...
Yuriko Kuwabara, precept for the QRR testing,said, "I didn't realize they were being AdBoarded." She refused any further comment...