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In the most beautiful of his Thames nocturnes of the 1870s, depicting Old Battersea Bridge in a luminous blue twilight, appearance is sliding off into illegibility under the aegis of Japanese prints; Hokusai, one of Whistler's favorite artists, had done a similar scene of fireworks at night behind a...
On one stage a flock of doves is released to flutter over the heads of the audience. On another there's an ethereal procession of dancers dressed as parti-colored birds. The avian stagecraft is not the only thing linking two complementary productions that have enlivened New York City's...
But are the plaques unjustified? The plaques are quite explicit. They argue that the building was built under the aegis of the Christian religion and they admonish the viewers to follow the teachings of both the Old and New Testaments. That message, nailed to the wall of the library, cannot...
The somatotyping photography program was conducted by Sheldon across the country under the aegis of Hooton at Harvard, Hersey says. "Harvard was the first college to put in this program, the photography-somatotyping program," Hersey says.
Now, the BCC will operate under the aegis of Harvard University, giving it a legitimacy that is has not had before. HCIA will offer its nominally independent study groups to the unwary, and students seeking to learn more will find there's a lot to lose instead.