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...check for a B+ Van Gogh, it is worth recalling what Albert and his wife Marie Christine achieved. Until they began collecting in 1773, under the tutelage of the Austrian ambassador to Venice, drawings and prints had been regarded mainly as curiosities or reference objects and were seldom collected in a systematic way. Albert was the first to focus methodically on drawings as an index to the development of artists, while dividing his collection chronologically and by schools; though not a writer, he was one of the fathers of art history...
...name missionaries have been given in popular American lore was at least partly earned for all of them by those who were barren-minded the devotees and bigots, who were often immensely shrewd but were seldom immensely intelligent. How could a Protestant God have stone shed such stupid enthusiasts?" David once burst out in his diary, after a brush with a pair of narrow fundamentalists...
This is a critical moment, and it leaves me with two alternatives. The first of these, the autistic imitation, seldom works, so I grit my teeth and opt for the second. "Ben Smith...
...savings and loan associations that dot southern Ohio seldom stir up any & excitement in the banking community, much less a panic. Yet for a few tense days last week, a crisis involving Ohio's thrift institutions sent tremors of anxiety through the financial world. Governor Richard Celeste's emergency shutdown of 69 privately insured thrifts, which were threatened by customer runs, was the most widespread closure in the financial industry since President Roosevelt declared a one-week national bank holiday in 1933. Ohio's closed-door policy was originally intended to last for only three days. It dragged on through...
JUST AS BRANDON'S masochistic nature leads to his downfall. Rupert's horror at learning the consequences of his beliefs makes him recant his carefree talk. But the case with which an ideology can rise and become the belief system of a diseased mind is apparent. Rupert, perhaps seldom dealing with anyone outside of intellectual circles, can freely talk in abstractions of doing away with inferior beings until he is confronted with the concrete implications of his doctrine. The fantasies brewing in Brandon's mind, meanwhile, were no doubt fueled by his lonely urban lifestyle...