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...Public Library. I entered on the side facing Copley Square, which is the impressive, older entrance, and much more aesthetically pleasing than the new entrance. The Boston Public Library features an outdoor courtyard within the library complex, as well as famous artwork on public display, including the John Singer Sergent murals, as well as artwork by Picasso, Rembrandt, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Winslow Homer...

Author: By Jenny Tsai, | Title: Finally Discovering Boston | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

...France. In the mid-1960s, some Frenchmen wondered if the Americans would ever make it to the moon if they insisted on calculating distances in feet and inches. Americans were considered "les grands enfants," powerful but childish. Not long ago, a University of Tours sociologist named Jean-Pierre Sergent argued that Americans would not go to war in the Persian Gulf because they cannot face reality, only simulated versions of it. Now, after the battle, a writer named Jean d'Ormesson allows that Bush, an apparent "simpleton . . . has revealed himself, to almost universal surprise, to be a steadfast head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Storm's Troops: Triumphant Return | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

Engle defeated Penn's Bob Sergent in a tough three-set match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Nip Quakers, 6-3 | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

...CORE standers in did not leave, however. Belinski then called Cambridge police Sergent John Walsh, who also told the demonstrators that the Bick was being closed and that they would have to leave. George Carpenter, one of those arrested, testified that Walsh then had the following conversation with the leader of the group, James J. Bishop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trial Begins for 25 Bick Demonstrators | 7/28/1964 | See Source »

...drawings are often too large and too well worked out to be tossed off in such a manner. Hugo signed them in big bold letters, parted with them only as gifts to cherished friends. Far from being casual, says Sergent, Hugo was merely being coy to avoid serious criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: He Also Wrote Novels | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

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