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...Ernst Mayr, a Harvard professor of zoology emeritus and a prolific writer on topics of evolution and the philosophy of biology, is the 1994 winner of the International Prize for Biology...
That's a sentiment shared by Bill Gladstone, former chairman of Ernst & Young, who persuaded four friends to join him and buy the team for $850,000 in 1992. This is a pittance compared with the macroeconomics of the majors, where teams sell for $150 million and up. "Buying a major league team was out of the question," he says. "My friend Peter O'Malley, president of the Dodgers, suggested that we look at the minors, where the cost is more reasonable and you have the same amount...
Adams wrote several articles and books, including On Being Human Religiously, The Prophethood of All Believers and An Examined faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment. He translated and interpreted German theologians Paul Tillich and Ernst Troeltsch...
Nevertheless, Dali was an important artist for about 10 years, starting in the late 1920s. Nothing can take that away from him. Other Surrealists -- especially Max Ernst and Dali's fellow Catalan Joan Miro -- were greater magicians; but Dali's sharp, glaring, enameled visions of death, sexual failure and deliquescence, of displaced religious mania and creepy organic delight, left an ineradicable mark on our century when it, and he, were young. Dali turned "retrograde" technique -- the kind of dazzlingly detailed illusionism that made irreality concrete, as in The First Days of Spring, 1929 -- toward subversive ends. His soft watches will...
...with Picasso reached a height of imitative flattery with his pastiches of the older painter's massive "classical" women in white fluted dresses. Likewise, when Dali the Surrealist was pupating, there was hardly a trope in his pictures of 1927-28 that didn't come out of Andre Masson, Ernst, Miro or Yves Tanguy...