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...view through Aug. 20) offers the evidence. Whistler was an artist whose legend as wit, dandy and aesthetic kamikaze--for what was his libel suit against the critic John Ruskin but a suicide mission, compelled by his own claims to "Southern honor"?--continued after his death and became a barrier to appraisal of his work. One would prefer to think that Whistler the artist flies free of Whistler the celebrity, the "personality." Not so. On one hand, his pose as a self-constructed man remains as fiercely impressive as Oscar Wilde's. "Float like a butterfly, sting like...
Certainly, stairs for me are more a mental barrier than anything else--my original injury occurred when I feel down a flight just before I left for my first year at Harvard. Crutches may slow down the climbing, but they do not make it impossible. Still, my quest for short cuts, elevators and ramps has shown me that some businesses have added so-called accessible elements to their floor plans but have failed to consider what a wheelchair-bound patron actually needs to have full and comfortable access to an evening at a restaurant or a trip to the movies...
...problem is that with the ease of application there may be an increase in the number of applications," he says. "The paper process does put up a small barrier that requires students to be serious before they fill out the paper and send it in--even for common applications...
Robinson later broke the major league color barrier on April 10, 1947, when he signed a contract to play for the Dodgers...
...Negro leagues continued to operate even after Robinson broke the color barrier, and Aaron began his baseball career playing for the Indianapolis Clowns in the Negro American Leagues, the only Black team for whom he played...