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...grains of "Detail of Old Wooden Cross' are the strokes of the painter's brush. The suppression of the background of "Rain Forest Kileuea" into middle grays sets off the few black tree trunks in the foreground and gives the jungle a surrealistic quality reminiscent of the paintings of Rousseau...
...Tour shared the cynical nationalism and lust for learning of his friends Voltaire and Rousseau. He refused the Order of St. Michael because of his egalitarian principles. He delved into science, mathematics, politics, theology, philosophy and poetry, and took up the study of Latin at 55. When he retired to the country, senile at 80, he endowed homes for indigent mothers and passionately adopted a pantheism that sent him roaming the countryside, embracing and talking to the trees. He died in 1788, the year before the society he chronicled...
...their graduate students cannot make ends meet on the present shoe-string salary they receive. In fact, they must be made to understand before the situation gets out of hand: before it blows up into an issue that could well embarrass Harvard University, administration and Teaching Fellows alike. G.S. Rousseau Instructor of English
...Harvard Glee Club has elected its officers for the coming year. They are John L. Whitlock '68 of Kirkland House and Durham, N.H., president; John C. Sheldon '68 of Eliot House and Maplewood, N.J., vice-president; and William H. Rousseau '68 of Dunster House and Reading, secretary...
...Harvard is no longer Mecca" (the words of a Harvard administrator). This is a matter of opinion. George S. Rousseau Instructor of English