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Wendorf is the author of The Elements of Life, a work exploring the similarities between portrait painting and biography in Stuart and Georgian England...
...deck chair on an empty sidewalk. In Atlanta Beach, only 230 miles from the nearest real sand, beach-volleyball fans sipped daiquiris in their bathing trunks while strangers sprayed them down with high-tech, fluorescent-green water pistols. And when one entered a media center in the Georgian Athens, behind a sign that said WEIGHT AREA, a floor below the animal-sciences department, one found 16 volunteers dancing attention on two members of the international press corps while others poked around in a copy machine with a pencil flashlight...
...first thought when the bombing occurred and I heard about the locally-made 911 call was that it was a Georgian. No professional terrorist would utilize that number or a local pay phone...
Located at Lamont's current site next to Wigglesworth Hall on Mass. Ave., the 120-year-old Georgian-style manor had served as home to distinguished Harvard scholars, including then-president James B. Conant...
...Among those who came together to form this agrarian empowerment movement: the Christian Women's Temperance Union, the Farmer's Alliance, the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor and the Christian Socialists. Yet almost from the outset, the Party was as negative as it was diversely constituted. Georgian populist Tom Watson, one of the Party's guiding lights, was infamous for such enlightened remarks as, "Did [Jefferson] dream that in 100 years or less...red-eyed Jewish millionaires would be chiefs of that [Democratic] Party, and that the liberty and prosperity of the country would be...constantly...