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...Hope" (circa 1822). Friedrich was inspired, at first, by reports of early expeditions to the North Pole, all of which failed. But the image he produced, with its grinding slabs of travertine-colored floe ice chewing up a wooden ship, goes beyond documentary into allegory: the frail bark of human aspiration crushed by the world's immense and glacial indifference. "The ice in the north must look very different from that," Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia is said to have grumped on viewing this picture. He was right, though it scarcely matters. Friedrich's shipwreck survives...
...royal desk by 5 or 6 in the morning, as absorbed in the minutiae of bureaucracy as a clerk in a tax office. He apparently enjoyed the stultifying formality of the Hofburg. Once, when he awoke very ill in the middle of the night, he was able to bark only one phrase at the physician who had scurried to him: "Formal dress!" If he had any off-guard moments, they were reserved for his marvelously bourgeois relationship with Actress Katherina Schratt, a love that lasted until he died. The Emperor regularly nipped down to Katherina's house for coffee...
...three days a week with the guys who make him feel most at home. While the debate to shelve the cleats lingers on in both the freshmen's and Stoeckel's minds, the young coach, who lacks only the authority of a chip board, will continue to bark out calls, slap pads and soothe butterfinger-aggravated egos...
...into the garage sale of history, many of America's intellectuals feared a recurrence of McCarthy fever. But with the notable exception of Daniel Ellsberg, the Administration was not out to get those who, in the early cold war, were derisively called eggheads. The Vice President's bark was reserved for TV, newspaper and magazine journalists, a motley lot whom intellectuals sometimes refer to as middlebrows...
...impossible due to distance as well as to the known accomplished fact [of the Turkish presence]." In Ankara, the Turks had prepared for a Greek attack, though they-and foreign military observers-considered it would be a suicidal move. "We knew that any dog pushed into a corner would bark and bite," said one Turkish official with chatty insouciance. "Now we see that Greece was not really pushed into a corner...