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...Where Some Designers Get Their Ideas This season collections had a wide range of inspirations, from 18th century painters to 1980s hipsters- 9/14/06
...Where Some Designers Get Their Ideas This season collections had a wide range of inspirations, from 18th century painters to 1980s hipsters- 9/14/06
...wife Eleanor Elkins Widener—who survived the Titanic disaster—apportioned $1.5 million to completing Miramar between 1914-1915 in addition to financing the library that bears her son’s name. Eleanor, an art connoisseur and collector, furnished Miramar primarily with 18th-century French art and architecture. She used the house as her summer home and frequently held large social events at the estate, often welcoming distinguished military, naval, and official visitors. In 1915—the same year the library and estate were completed—she married then Harvard geography professor Alexander Hamilton...
...most important thing is for the Core Office to be more flexible and stop making petty distinctions between classes. Why, after all, is English 151, “The 19th-Century Novel” somehow worthy of Core credit, while English 141, “The 18th-Century Novel,” is not? And it is absolutely baffling why a person who has taken five English literature classes must be compelled to do another in order to fulfill a requirement in Literature and Arts C, whatever that...
...that the certainty of fundamentalism? Or was it the initiation into a mystery none of us can ever fully understand? I'd argue the latter. The 18th century German playwright Gotthold Lessing said it best. He prayed a simple prayer: "If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left hand only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand, and say, Father, I will take...