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...that we have a female president, must we also have flowers in Harvard Yard? The association between gender and botany isn’t so eccentric as it first appears??€”Radcliffe has always had a greener thumb. Visitors from Oxford and Cambridge have often noted the lack of flower-beds in the yard, and so have those from Princeton and Yale. But why the austerity? Like any lusty mistress of knowledge, I consult the oracular geniuses. In this case, Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, who after a learned cadenza through Harvard History said...
...Whenever Kate and Thomas seem to be at loose ends, a strangely Jesus-like figure, known as the King, appears??€”direction, reassurance, and food in hand. To convince Thomas to commit himself to the mission, the King appears in a dream, and Taylor writes, “Thomas looked into his eyes, and he realized they were the eyes of the cross, deep blue, warm, all-seeing, all-knowing. He felt naked before him, as if this man knew all about his life. Every secret, every lie, every ugly thought was on display...
...than photographs. Where from a single photographic negative, innumerable prints can be struck, each daguerreotype is composed of a single silver-coated copper plate from which no exact copies can be created. When viewed straight on, the image presented is the traditional positive, but as perspective shifts, the negative appears??€”in this manner, simultaneously occupying the normal and reverse of photographs, the singular uniqueness of daguerreotypes becomes wonderfully apparent...
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