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...grasp on just how important Finn has been to the Harvard women's program, you must understand that not only was she perhaps the best ever women's lacrosse player but also one of the best ever field hockey players...
...last years Kenneth Clark's energies as a writer waned, and it is hard for anyone born after 1950 to grasp what a role he once played in art criticism. He was pushing 80 when he died on May 21, and he seemed an archaic figure, the last of the gentlemen aesthetes, a man who-as it was said after Civilisation went to air nearly 15 years ago-tended to discuss the Renaissance as though he had commissioned it. Yet no English writer since Roger Fry, perhaps not since John Ruskin, had more effect on the way a general...
...church's experience during the Galileo affair and after it had led to a more mature attitude toward, a more accurate grasp of, its proper authority," said the Pope. "The church learns by experience and reflection, and it now understands better the meaning that must be given to freedom of research. We recognize that [Galileo] suffered from certain bodies of the church...
...omnipotent." It is extremely difficult to say anything original about such metaphysical matters, and Pilgermann does not. As a theologian, he tends toward the tedious. But the quality of his ideas is less important than the restless energy of the mind that forms them. He is trying to grasp what cannot be known. His aim is not to pursue a single train of logic or evidence but to make sense of the universe that contains him. He is not a thinker but an artist...
...Vice President, and made it. Now, in the early spring of 1983, he somehow had revived his presidential reputation. Here he was, leading all the Democratic candidates by a wide margin, and running ahead of Ronald Reagan too. He held the institutional center of the Democratic Party in his grasp. Now he stood in front of audiences volunteering that back in 1974 he had simply not been ready. "What I'm telling you," he says, "is that I am ready to be President...