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Childhood endowed Ernst with a rich compost of obsessions. His father was a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, an amateur painter who taught in a school for deaf-mutes in the Rhineland town of Brühl. Little Max briefly persuaded this eccentric sire that he was the child Jesus. Memories of this sort underlie Ernst's most notorious thrust of anticlerical wit, a spanking Madonna entitled The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses (1926). When his baby sister was born and his favorite bird, a pink cockatoo, died on the same day in 1906, a whole...
...ingeniously) grafted on to fans, necklaces, needle cases and hand mirrors. Clocks were emblazoned with statuary and paintings. Yet Photographer Willsberger presents more than just a collection of pretty faces. Even his earliest samples, dating from the 15th century, are marvels of mathematical complexity. One clock by Abraham Louis Bréguet (circa 1810) not only gave the time; it also recorded the lunar date, the earthly day, date, month and year-and the temperature...
Harv.-Col Yale- Br. Prin.-Corn. Dart -Penn. Last Week's record Season's record Season Pct. Mike Savit Harvard 32-14 Yale 23-17 Princeton 20-13 Dartmouth 26-13 5-1 13-1 .929 Bill Stedman Harvard 22-6 Brown 35-32 Princeton 25-13 Penn 20-15 5-1 11-3 .786 Rich Doherty Harvard 34-10 Yale 25-24 Princeton 22-20 Dartmouth 24-14 5-1 10-4 .714 Andy Quigley Harvard 33-10 Brown 17-14 Princeton 27-20 Dartmouth 21-6 4-2 9-5 .643 Jim Reinig Harvard 24-7 Brown...
Harv.-B.U. Yale-Colg. Corn.-Buck. Br.-Penn. Dart.-H.C. Prin.-Col. Last week's record Season Pct. Jim Reinig Harvard 26-14 Yale 24-10 Cornell 17-10 Brown 28-17 Dartmouth 12-10 Princeton 20-7 4-4 .500 Andy Quigley Harvard 24-7 Yale 29-6 Bucknell 17-9 Brown 35-14 Dartmouth 14-12 Princeton 32-13 5-3 .625 Rich Doherty Harvard 24-15 Yale 30-21 Cornell 26-20 Brown 29-19 Dartmouth 14-10 Princeton 20-7 5-3 .625 Bill Stedman Harvard 25-19 Yale 27-19 Cornell 23-12 Brown...
Porter does well with Brünnhilde's noble, ardent "Willst du mir Minne schenken" sung to Siegfried in Götterdämmerung. Wagner wrote...