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When in 1862 Sisley joined the class of the renowned Parisian teacher Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, two fellow students happened to be Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet. Monet disdained Gleyre, who once berated him for painting a model with all its deformities. "Nature, my friend, is all right as an element of study," said Gleyre, "but it offers no interest. Style, you see, is everything." By 1864, Renoir, Monet, Sisley and their fellow student Jean Bazille had settled down near Fontainebleau to paint nature as they...
...Gabriel M. Kolko, a tutor at Quincy House and member of the executive committee of Boston SANE, charged that police closed the club to harass his organization. "Now you don't have the right to sing in peace," he said...
...Gabriel Marcel, who has remained among the foremost of French existentialists for nearly half a century, said in his first William James lecture yesterday that a philosopher only remains a philosopher so long as he retains the child's capacity for "wonderment...
...GABRIEL H. MARCEL, William James Lecturer on Philosophy and member of the Institute de France, will discuss "The Existential Background of Human Dignity" in Emerson...
...Greater Infortune concerns a Scot named A. W. Leckie who goes bankrupt, settles in London with his incredibly cheerful wife Alison, and begins to subsist on handouts from a rich homosexual. He goes partying with a congeries of unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took him to see a magic...