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...nation's 200th birthday, I was 19, idealistic and even flag-waving. Only four years later, I'm tired of the lies and deception in this same nation. Since the flag is a symbol of this country's greatness, I would never burn it or step on it, and after reading "Rediscovering America" I may even raise it again-to half-mast...
Vonnegut was the main speaker at a Cambridge Forum celebrating the 200th birthday of William Ellery Channing, a Cambridge minister who led abolitionist movements in the 1840s...
...general consent, Jean-Siméon Chardin was one of the supreme artists of the 18th century, and probably the greatest master of still life in the history of painting. Yet there has not been, until now, a full-dress retrospective of his work. To mark the 200th anniversary of his death, at the age of 80 in 1779, a huge Chardin show opened in January at the Grand Palais in his native Paris, with 142 paintings, drawings and pastels, and a catalogue by one of Europe's most distinguished art historians, Pierre Rosenberg. Two American institutions took part...
...Harvard defense seemed tentative to back up," UMass head coach Richard Garber said after his 200th career win. "When our middies dodged, the Harvard defenseman was reluctant to leave his man. Then they got good momentum in the second half...
This month he extends that record with the publication of his 200th book. Leave it to Asimov to complicate things by passing the milestone twice. With rival publishers equally eager to bring out the landmark work, the author has satisfied both by assigning the same number to two offerings...