Word: bryants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Cole left on a trip to Italy, his friend William Cullen Bryant, nature poet and editor, urged him in a sonnet not to be seduced by the humanized, picturesque Europe--to "keep that earlier, wilder image bright." After Cole's early death, that image was to get wilder and brighter still in the work of his only pupil, Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900). Descended from six generations of Yankee ministers and merchants, patriotic and deeply religious, Church inherited Cole's belief in a style of landscape suffused with "a language strong, moral and imaginative." His paintings--mostly...
...evening when the air rests heavily on the trees and the lights of Memorial Church glow through the haze of twilight, I wonder what it will mean to leave this place in three weeks. I stand at the intersection of paths in Tercentenary Theatre and think of what James Bryant Conant '14 said during Harvard's tercentenary year of 1936: "He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground." What will I miss about this hallowed ground? And what will I carry with...
...CANDIDATE] ELIZABETH DOLE FORMER FIRST LADY CANDIDATE [SIGN OF RUNNING] Endorsed (again) last week at Harvard by husband Bob [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] Already has a good job [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Maggie Thatcher [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] Anita Bryant...
...Detroit Lions (from Oakland Raiders): Shawn Springs, CB, Ohio State. The Lions fill a major need with this great cover corner. He ran 4.4 flat at the combine and can jump over 40 inches. I don't like him as much as Bryant Westbrook because he can't bring a load against the run like Westbrook...
...Houston Oilers (from St. Louis Rams, New York Jets): Bryant Westbrook, CB, Texas. Westbrook may end up being a better NFL player than Springs because of his size, fluidity and unbelievable hitting ability. As Keith Jackson would say, "Whoa, Nellie, will this boy hitchee...