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...leaning out the windows of a departing train-and acting in general like sailors on their first shore leave. The audience is meant to feel compassion for these arrested adolescents, but also to laugh at their pranks-that is, to be critics and accomplices at once. If such a feat were possible, these fellows do not justify making the effort...
...Jimmy Carter in "expressing conservative life-styles and personal values." Political Analyst Kevin Phillips agrees: "A lot of practical conservatives could support Carter. He has a cultural appeal to the New Majority." In short, Carter appears to be beating the Republicans at their own conservative game?a considerable political feat for a candidate who also takes many conventionally liberal stands...
Making It. Benjamin West (1738-1820) was the first to go. He went to Italy and then to London, where he became court painter to George III. That a colonial could bring off such a feat was regarded as singular. It turned him into a precocious father figure for later Yankee expatriates, notably Copley and Stuart. Here was their lesson in making it: the teen-age limner who, thanks to Rome and practical ambition, rose to become the second president of the Royal Academy. In fact, West was by temperament an ideal official artist: studious, methodical, competent, a bovine draftsman...
...Researcher Walsh, after exploring how an 18-inch ray transmits its shock through water, also tried to find out how often the fish can perform this feat. By plunging a captive ray rapidly up and down in a trough of water, he discovered that it could give off about 100 shocks during 20 plunges in the course of three minutes...
...That feat may have been the most important of Rosovsky's term so far--by the spring of '73 the Faculty deficit had expanded so greatly that the terrifying (for University administrators) specter of paying off bills through liquidation of endowment was a real possibility. Taken to an extreme conclusion, the situation meant the end of the Faculty...