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...spite of the relative dearth of Harvard points, some Crimson thinclads ensured that their opponents had to fight the Crimson all the way to the wire...
...spite of the confusion, no one feels the need for women in the cast Said Percival, "The show would not have the same appeal, to both sexes, that it does...
Doubleday; 136 pages; $14.95 f ?| n spite of everything, I still believe I that people are really good at heart...
Copley never did master the grand manner as prescribed by Reynolds. His huge, ambitious history painting, Watson and the Shark, 1778, is a beloved American classic thanks to, not in spite of, its earnest potpourri of quotations from Titian, Raphael, the Borghese Gladiator and the Laocoon. But at the level of the portrait he was exact and forceful. The tight, heavy faces, didactic hands and subtly registered expressions of Copley's New Englanders read like indexes of American character, and his painting of Thomas and Sarah Mifflin (1773) is one of the great 18th century images of the enlightened...
...been "cut, stabbed, run over, hit by a car, tromped by a horse, robbed, fooled, deceived, doublecrossed, dealt seconds . . . but I am still here." Not even death weakens such a stand. The power of ghosts is that they manage to retain their place in the world in spite of the final obstruction; they insist on their presence. A simple matter, but a basic one. We will do anything to stay around, and to keep others around as well, by way of monuments, ceremonies, books. During the Stalinist terror, the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova stood in line at the Leningrad prison...