Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Davis fills the vacancy left by Thomas Bazzone, who departed a year ago to pursue a career as an independent consultant...
...aimless discussion of the New York theater season (all British imports), summer houses (expensive) and the servant problem (dire) until coffee was mercifully served. Only then did the editor, Michael Lordover, come to the point: "Jim, this isn't the big book you need at this point in your career. Sure we could publish it, and maybe it would make back a modest advance. But Speedy tells me you've also been keeping a secret diary of the convention. Now that's the book I really want. A tell-all confessional filled with political intrigue and maybe a few blonds...
...painting? Not quite, for artists took longer to develop their gifts, and painting, in any case, never seemed as good a political instrument to the Founding Fathers as architecture. Benjamin West (1738-1820), born in Springfield, Pa., to Quaker parents, was the first major American painter to make a career in Europe; he succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. West might be known as the American Raphael, but this praise was as excessive as Lord Byron's dismissal of him: "the flattering, feeble dotard, West,/ Europe's worst dauber...
...King's portrait at the moment a messenger arrived with the news of the Declaration of Independence. The unfolding of the Revolution caused him endless social difficulty, because the English and the American loyalist exiles in London suspected him of siding with the rebels. But still West's career was full of lessons for Americans artists coming up behind him: his desire for education, his often rather raw quoting of poses from classical statuary, his impulse toward deeper historical and allegorical meaning, took him far away from the provincial limner tradition in which he had grown...
...Post for saying he used his corporate position to "set up his son" in a shipping business, the jurors on the case reportedly proceeded on three intuitive assumptions. First, if a news organization accuses someone, it ought to be able to prove its charges. Second, a public figure whose career depends on his reputation ought to enjoy, if anything, greater protection from unsubstantiated attack than an ordinary citizen. Third, documented disagreement within a newsroom about a story's validity -- followed by its publication -- shows the news organization doubted the story's accuracy...