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...definitive image of the late-Victorian equestrian male: superbly grave and self-contained, tall as a tree, and yet with a touch of carelessness in the flare of his buff hunting waistcoat and the dashing arabesque of paint with which, in a single loaded stroke, Sargent conveyed the fold of his breeches--a gesture as assured, in its way, as any brushstroke by de Kooning. With women Sargent was in his element, and icons of late-Victorian and Edwardian femininity rise from his work with wonderful directness: those all-time-champion Jewish princesses the Wertheimer sisters, zaftig and bursting with...
...world's best chemist. Ten years later his peers agreed. By then, The Nature of the Chemical Bond (1939) was already on its way to becoming the most influential chemistry book of the century. His biggest biological success came from his 1951 proposal of the alpha-helical fold for protein molecules, which everybody else thought were too large and complex to study. His findings were quickly verified, and Linus' confidence was never higher...
These newbies, who have seen the 20- and 30-fold moves of stocks like Amazon and Yahoo, think the danger lies in sitting out these moves in the Pepsis and Mercks. And who is to blame them? Lately I have come to wonder whether the risk-reward parameters I cut my teeth on are as out of date as those of my parents' generation, which saw utilities as safe, conservative growth vehicles that would leave hefty rewards for their children. They didn't. At what point, after how many new fortunes, can we proclaim the old paradigm of stock risk...
Speaking of cattle, it's pre-frosh season. Fold out those futons and bone up on the history of the Science Center; they're back. Judging by the anal-retentiveness of this year's potential admits (e.g. one high schooly Thayer guest allegedly broke out the custom-made business cards as an icebreaker), the class of '03 will likely cause a mad rush for ArtCarved's "Epic" line...
...Speaking of cattle, it's pre-frosh season. Fold out those futons and bone up on the history of the Science Center; they're back. Judging by the anal-retentiveness of this year's potential admits (e.g. one high schooly Thayer guest allegedly broke out the custom-made business cards as an icebreaker), the class of `03 will likely cause a mad rush for ArtCarved's "Epic" line...