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Among the questions he asks, before getting down to more complicated business, are her weight (both he and she blush) and eye color. "Blue," she says. He looks up from his Army form for a fond moment. "I never argue with a lady about the color of her eyes." But it comes out that Ratliff, who is turning 19 as she sits in the recruitment office, did not finish high school. Female recruits must be graduates. "I have to send a lot of good people out the door because of that diploma," he tells...
...first freshmen are fond of the expression "curvature of the earth" to describe their margin of victory. And while all the Harvard boats would like to see the competition on the horizon. Beall boils the Sprints down simply to "racing as fast as you can when the guy says...
Nowhere has it been more true than at Cranbrook that "architecture is the mother of the arts," as architects are fond of saying. Among the works created under the academy's aegis: the sculpture of Carl Milles, Tony Rosenthal, Harry Bertoia and others; the rugs and wall hangings of Eliel Saarinen's wife Loja, his daughter Pipsan and Marianne Strengell; and the furniture and furnishings of Charles and Ray Eames, Bertoia and Eero Saarinen. Says Met Curator Miller: "Cranbrook's artists all conceived their work in an architectural context and believed in the totality of design from...
Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal is fond of quoting an observation by Author Theodore White in his The Making of the President 1972 that whenever anyone of consequence from the terrain between Boston and Washington talks to anyone else from that part of the country, each starts with the assumption that the other has read that day's edition of the Times. It is the most complete American newspaper, and it serves to define "all the news" for many of the country's opinion makers by what it deems "fit to print." In international news, science and technology, food...
...fact that he has been able to fend off inquiry about his origins for so long is a tribute to the alarm that this glacial, gifted and pretentious man inspires in the French. The ostensible aim of his facade is to fade away, like the Cheshire cat (Balthus is fond of cats), and leave only the work, like the grin, hanging in the air. But the real result, of which Balthus must be meticulously aware, is to create a myth about himself: the painter as romantic hero, a Byronic creature with a secret wound and obscurely exalted origins...