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...some souvenir of long ago. I myself will discover hundreds of so-called plagiarisms in my work . . . The cover of my latest book is a collage of Leonardo's Mono, Lisa. I have no less than six paintings strictly derived from Millet's Angelus. Let my enemies gloat . . . To imitate is not important. To be inimitable is most important. I remain one of the greatest living painters...
...these fans were less vociferous. The Dartmouth Daily recently boasted about the "unexcelled spirit" shown at Big Green basketball contests. This particular brand of Dartmouth "spirit" largely consists in cursing the officials and rocking the field house during every opponent's foul shot. Harvard fans have little to gloat about. They run a close second in this department. Their actual cheering, as at Hanover, is commendable, but this is unfortunately overshadowed by a continuous din of catcalls directed at the officials and rival players. This petulant display of sportsmanship reached a high point in last season's Columbia game...
Valpey made the greatest impression on reporters in the post-game conferences in the Field House. He was under increasing pressure this fall as each game came and went, but his manner never changed. After the Holy Cross game, when most men would have been tempted to gloat a little. Art was so quiet you might have thought he didn't care unless you had seen him come out of the dressing room a few minutes earlier. By the time he got into the press conferences and saw Bill Osmanski who had, at that time, won only one less game...
Chairman Rankin could afford to gloat. To make revenge doubly sweet, he had a ready-made way of forcing the House to go on record: a new rule (TIME, Jan. 10), aimed originally at obstructionists like John Rankin, which permits any committee chairman to bring out a bill after the Rules Committee has pigeonholed it for 21 days...
Around here it is the custom to gloat for long paragraphs over the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Of all the major orchestras in the country, only this one has a great place in the hearts of the local populace; only this one is a center of aesthetic endeavour. But once it has been said that Koussevitzky's group is the finest symphony orchestra in the world, that...