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Clarence Mitchell Courthouse, a brooding Beaux Arts monolith in the heart of Baltimore, contains the Baltimore City Juvenile Court. Like the 2,500 similar juvenile courts across the nation, this is where the battles are being fought against some of America's toughest problems: drugs, disintegrating families, household violence. As these problems have grown worse over the past two decades, the judicial system designed to deal with them has crumbled. These courts are an indicator of the country's compassion for families and its commitment to justice, but increasingly they have neither the money nor the personnel to save most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corridors Of Agony | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

...Beaux Arts Trio--with pianist Menahem Pressler, violinist Isidore Cohen and cellist Peter Wiley perform Mozart's Trio in E Major, K. 542. Zemlinsky's Trio in D Minor, Opus 3 and Schubert's Trio in E-flat Major, Opus 100. The concert is sponsored by the Winthrop House Music Society. In Sanders Theatre at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20, $19, $17, $15, and $8 for students and elders, and are available by calling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

Matlock says her work is motivated in part by experiences she had in Paris, while she was studying at the L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in the mid-1970s. That stay exposed her to people who lived on the fringes of society and introduced her to the complexity of race, gender and politics, Matlock says...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: The Same Conviction at a Different Harvard | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

Matlock says her work is motivated in part by experiences she had in Paris, while she was studying at the L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in the mid-1970s. That stay exposed her to people who lived on the fringes of society and introduced her to the complexity of race, gender and politics, Matlock says...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: The Same Conviction at a Different Harvard | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

...draftsman of the human figure. Ryder could make dramatic, even magical conjunctions of shape. His color, judging from what is left of it, was rich. But he drew feebly. New York in the early 1870s could not give an art student much more than a remote echo of beaux arts disciplines in that department. The convention is to treat this as Ryder's good luck: it enabled his native, visionary qualities to prosper, unsullied by academic convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: America's Saintly Sage | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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