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...perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. "As a painter, I become more lucid in front of Nature," Paul Cezanne wrote to his son in 1906, the last year of his life. "But that realization of my sensations is always very painful. I cannot attain the intensity which unfolds to my senses. I don't have that magnificent richness of coloration which animates nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: MODERNISM'S PATRIARCH | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...Tempora! Oh Mores! Regarding your article on the Undergraduate Council's ability to attain quorum: It is bad enough that the president of the U.C. is swearing in official meetings, but do we really have to read this smut on the front page? --Adam L. Cohen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Do We Really Have to Read This? | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

Many students said yesterday they were pleased the department will be offering a non-thesis program that will still allow students to attain an honors degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EPC Okays New Honors Plan For Econ | 4/11/1996 | See Source »

...returned there on family business. I can say that the economic depression there has much less to do with the U.S. embargo than with Castro's lining his pockets. He has not, however, been able to destroy the spirit of the Cuban people or stop efforts from abroad to attain freedom for them. I hope to see the end of Castro's regime. I will not predict the result; history will speak for itself. Unfortunately, too many lives have already paid the price for Castro's rule. ASTERIA PENA Coconut Creek, Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1996 | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...Court. The final club system provides the opportunity to return the women to their "proper" place. The Harvard men surround themselves with flocks of women, not only Harvard women, but women from all over the Boston area. In one fell swoop, the individuality we have struggled so hard to attain is enveloped in a great migration of Bostonian women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off to Wellesley | 3/15/1996 | See Source »

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