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...that some of Harvard's house officials aren't so happy, either. According to several eyewitnesses, Eliot House Master Alan Heimert '49 told a group of sophomores at an open house this week that he was a "man of tradition." And if the beer flowed at Harvard in the 17th Century, he reportedly said, it would just as surely flow today...
Conte faces a challenge by John R. Arden but is likely to be around for a 17th term, continuing his role as the dean of the state delegation...
...inventive, so grand in its effects and masterly in its execution that it created a sense of helplessness in others. He was the 16th century's unrivaled topographer of male power and female beauty, as Rubens (whose conception of artistic prowess was modeled on Titian's) was in the 17th. Titian pushed the description of masculine character farther than any portraitist before...
...projection of character reached new levels with Titian, just as the dramatic exploration of character and foible, already a mainspring of English plays before the early 17th century, had to wait for Shakespeare to disclose its full power. "There's no art/ To find the mind's construction in the face," complained Duncan in Macbeth, but he was a primitive Scot; after Titian, there emphatically was such an art. The fierce, glaring authority of Doge Andrea Gritti; the plump self-assurance of the Florentine historian Benedetto Varchi; the saurian cunning of old Pope Paul III, huddled in his velvet cape...
...legal lore in the state that no one who is party to a case ever knows more about it than Souter. Says Merrill: "You can always count on David to have read relevant cases that you haven't heard of. He'll say, 'There's an interesting line of 17th century British cases that I'm sure you're familiar with...