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...child, he was fascinated with words and meanings and obsessed with clarity, both in understanding and in being understood. He wrote all his life for local newspapers, although mostly anonymously, and harbored a lifelong tendency to meet provocation with a written response. By the 1850s, when he came to political prominence, he had already formed the habit of making notes on scraps of paper of ideas and phrases as they occurred to him, which he then used in composing speeches. And perhaps his most valuable and most unsuspected trait as a writer was his devotion to revision...
...left to writers (Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane) to explore, and to photographers. But painting served as a way of oblivion--of reconstructing an idealized innocence. Thus, as Dr. Cooper points out, Homer's 1870s watercolors of farm children and bucolic courtships try to memorialize the halcyon days of the 1850s; the children gazing raptly at the blue horizon in Three Boys On The Shore, their backs forming a shallow arch, in a sense are this lost America. None of this prevented Homer's contemporaries from seeing such works as unvarnished and in some ways disagreeable truth. "Barbarously simple," thought Henry...
...LASSCO's experts will carefully salvage the architectural antiques. The firm's cavernous St. Michael's warehouse is jammed with around $7.5 million worth of curios. A set of elegantly cast stair spindles removed from the Royal Albert Hall (a bargain at $320 each) sits next to an enormous 1850s mahogany display case ($13,200) that originally held flora specimens at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. A regularly updated list of antiques can be found at www.lassco.co.uk, or call (44-20) 7749 9944. Manager Anthony Reeve hasn't sold any of London's bridges yet, but it can only...
...firm's cavernous St. Michael's warehouse is jammed with around $7.5 million worth of curios. A set of elegantly cast stair spindles removed from the Royal Albert Hall (a bargain at $320 each) sits next to an enormous 1850s mahogany display case ($13,200) that originally held flora specimens at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. A regularly updated list of antiques can be found at www.lassco.co.uk, or call (44-20) 7749 9944. Manager Anthony Reeve hasn't sold any of London's bridges yet, but it can only be a matter of time...
...State George C. Marshall that is only very loosely tied to the big three. Another chapter entitled “Brumidi’s Frescoes and Film Noir” seems similarly detached. Constantino Brumidi was an Italian artist who attempted to overthrow the pope in the early 1850s. He went into exile in the United States and designed patriotic murals at the Capitol—using a “real fresco” technique “in which paint is applied to [a] wet surface.” What relevance does “real fresco?...