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...carry bits of the sublime view on them, is the title of Poe's 1846 tale about a superrich American landscape connoisseur who creates a Xanadu for himself. "Let us imagine," says Poe's hero, "a landscape whose combined vastness and definitiveness -- whose united beauty, magnificence and strangeness shall convey the idea of care, or culture . . . on the part of beings superior, yet akin to humanity . . ." Yes, one can well imagine Magritte liking that. His work too sets up a parallel world, extremely strange and yet familiar, ruled by an absolutist imagination...
Wald will convey information regarding academic planning, employment policies and the general direction the University is taking, Shattuck said...
...Lost. Levine's writing partner, Peter Kellogg, also a beginner, deftly focuses the story on Anna's forced choice between romantic love for Vronsky and maternal love for her child by her husband Karenin. But Kellogg nearly wrecks the enterprise with lyrics so blandly generic that they convey hardly any specifics of character -- especially frustrating when the source, Tolstoy's novel, provides some of the most vivid characters in world literature...
...beyond Bush the dreamer and Bush the everyday American, the main image the president tried to convey with his fiery voice and angry tone, was of Bush the fighter...
That requires some effort, said James D. Wilkinson, director of the Bok Center for Teaching and learning. Wilkinson said that most faculty members probably won't read the reports on their own volition. "What you have to do is convey the information to them," he said...