Word: brotherism
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...begins with the painter Max Weber, a Russian Jewish émigré to New York City. It was Weber who brought the first Picasso canvas to the U.S., in 1909, on his return from a four-year stay in Paris, where he had befriended the indispensable Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo, cocksure tastemakers and champions of Picasso. By that year Picasso and Braque were already off and running through the first stages of Cubism. Meanwhile, advanced American painting, such as it was, meant the Ashcan School realism of Robert Henri and John Sloan or the agreeable borrowings of Childe Hassam...
...still dry. "That was the easiest habit ever broke in my life. I drank Heineken for 50 years, and now I see those frosty bottles going by me in front of me at a reception - I can't even remember what it tasted like.") Crane is, coincidentally, the brother of ex-Rep. Dan Crane, another Illinois Republican, who was censured in the last big page scandal for having consensual sex with a 17-year-old female page...
...decades...60 percent of Italians won’t have a brother, a sister, an aunt or an uncle,” Weigel said...
...appropriate licensing. This opportunity is a welcome one for Harvard students, who have been unable to study in Cuba since the Bush administration tightened its travel restrictions in 2004.The prospect of change in Cuba—presaged by Cuban President Fidel Castro’s delegating power to his brother, Raul, this past summer—makes this opportunity all the more timely. Harvard students can serve as cultural and ideological ambassadors to a country that has had only minimal contact with the U.S. in the past 45 years. The program plans to match Harvard undergraduates with a mentor from...
...Adam J. Penn, the owner of Veggie Planet, said he has mixed feelings, although he primarily uses organic and olive oils. “I definitely think it is good to be as health conscious as possible, but my first reaction is that it does seem a little Big Brother...