Word: albert
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...since the Middle Ages, when every animal or plant could be taken to symbolize some aspect of God's plan, had a landscape been as widely moralized as America's wilderness. Novak persuasively argues that the powers of artists as diverse as Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, Martin Johnson Heade, Thomas Cole or John F. Kensett did not simply arise from their formal talents as painters. They were reinforced by a social agreement about the meanings of art and landscape in the last age of faith, when there still appeared to be a seamless, didactic relationship between nature...
...fleet calls at bases around the rim of the Indian Ocean, including an anchorage on the island of Socotra in the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. The Soviets are currently seeking permission to build a base in the Seychelles, 1,200 miles west of Diego Garcia, though President Albert Rene insists he will not grant...
...august dealer-photographer Alfred Stieglitz gave Hartley his first one-man show at his famed 291 [Fifth Avenue] Gallery. To his delight. Hartley suddenly found himself immersed in the Stieglitz circle. But his most emotional experience was his discovery of Albert Pinkham Ryder. "I was a convert to the field of imagination into which I was born," he wrote. "I had been thrown back into the body and being of my own country...
...with Washington bureaus, the Journal's contingent is second largest, behind the New York Times. In the capital, notes TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress, it is regarded as one of the top three, along with the Times and the Los Angeles Times. Specialists, such as James M. Perry and Albert R. Hunt (politics), Dennis Farney (Congress), Richard J. Levine (economics), Kenneth H. Bacon (defense) and Karen Elliott House (foreign affairs), are pre-eminent in their fields...
Once he establishes this premise, Higgins keeps things moving. Of course, Mikali will run afoul of the one man capable of discovering his double life. Of course, these adversaries will stage their final showdown on the occasion of Mikali's greatest triumph, a concert in London's Albert Hall. The plot, as formally predictable as a minuet, diverts without disturbing. Higgins' prose is simple to the point of sketchiness. Sentences lack verbs-a lot of sentences. Clichés nudge the brain along well-worn paths: "That sixth sense that had kept him alive for so long...