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...Douglas Dillon is a giant. He is a person who, in his public and private life, is a standard-bearer and definer in society," Allison said Thursday...
State Rep. Royall Switzler (R-Wellesley) was nominated by a close second ballot at the April convention. He was later found to have falsified his Vietnam war record, and withdrew from the race. The current bearer of the party's endorsement, George Kariotis, owns a corporation which has been fined by the Environmental Protection Agency, but is relatively unscathed...
...challenge from such superb schools as Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard, under its patrician president Derek Bok, remains the gauge against which others are measured. As the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame, puts it, Harvard is "the standard bearer and symbol of excellence...
...unemployment, family disintegration and crime that has created what former Virginia Governor Charles Robb called a "permanent caste of destitute young men and women" in the nation's ghettos. One of the hosts was New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who was cast into the role of liberal standard-bearer by his stirring "shining city on a hill" speech at the 1984 convention; he has since worked to position himself for a presidential campaign by balancing pragmatic approaches with progressive ideals. The other sponsor was the Democratic Leadership Council, led by Robb, which has sought to bring the party back...
...turned out to possess an immense sacerdotal gravity: it could stand in for religious icons. Even a relatively small easel painting like Flower Day, 1925, is consciously hieratic in its symmetry, the stillness of its squat figures, the blazing epiphanic color and the clear identification of the Indian flower bearer, bowed under his angelic load of calla lilies, with a priest bowing before celebrants. And though dreadful excesses of cheap tourist cliche would sprout from Rivera's fusion of the thick crankshaft rhythms of pre-Columbian sculpture with the observed faces and bodies of Mexican peasants, there...