Word: brought
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...brilliant painter who no longer paints (hello there, Papa H.). Becalmed, then stirred by the faintest of internal winds, he returns from the staleness of the East Coast to Montana, where he has inherited a cattle spread. Here the author novelizes industriously, with small effect. Events occur; characters are brought to life, then enter, speak and exit; but Joe remains a not very interesting puzzle to himself and the reader. Only Montana itself is luminous, and for a few paragraphs here and there McGuane is still a marvelous writer: "The huge cottonwoods along the river had turned purest yellow...
...political issues brought with them unexpected scrutiny. A slew of controversial debates last spring burned the body, forcing many members to reconsider the council's role as a political institution...
...Consult non-council student leaders on a regular basis. Last year, the Harvard Union of Student Officers brought together leaders from different realms of student life, but had no official representative capacity. The council should ask official leaders of all the student organizations to meet on a regular basis as an advisory body. The council can't champion every cause on campus, but it can learn valuable lessons from those...
Hall is on leave this fall, but will teach a course entitled "Liberalism and Orthodoxy, 1750-1890" in the spring. He was brought to Harvard with a grant from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Fund for Unitarian Universalist Studies, an endowment created last year by several Unitarian Universalist groups...
...constructs them as things. When you look at a Velazquez, you do not look at an illusion of reality. You are inducted into a relationship with the painter's civil candor about what he does. You are invited to think about how paintings come to mean what they say. Brought to the fore, embodied on the surface ever more boldly, this is the great conceptual theme of Velazquez's work, its binding ethic. It precludes all sentimentality and rhetoric. It is -- as one of his contemporaries exclaimed, on seeing Las Meninas -- "the theology of painting...