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...worsened - in Malta in 1608 he was arrested again for another brawl and had to escape from prison - his palette and his configurations of space became more subdued. His figures begin to flicker and dematerialize. Pagan motifs disappear; religious scenes multiply. Bloodshed and death turn up everywhere. You can grasp his evolution in the distance that separates the 1601 version of The Supper at Emmaus, which belongs to the National Gallery, and a version completed five years later, soon after he fled Rome. Both focus on the moment of Christ's appearance before two astonished disciples...
...important for both patients and loved ones to grasp that terminal patients aren't just dying--they're also living, stresses Therese Rando, clinical director at the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss in Warwick, R.I. "With that realization, patients often begin doing things to give their lives purpose and meaning," Rando says. "People want to know they can continue to exist in the world after they're dead. Who wants to be forgotten...
...What I loved about Henry was his intelligence, his immediate grasp of all dimensions of the subject," says Lance Morrow, a writer Grunwald cultivated at TIME. "He improved stories by suggesting 10 new things you had not thought of." The range of his mind was legendary. As a young man, he would recite to his dates from T.S. Eliot. While rising at TIME, he managed to edit a compendium of critical writings about the author J.D. Salinger and another called Sex in America. One of our cherished legends about Henry describes his being told that a writer's cover story...
...Buddha, who listens patiently and then promises to help if she brings him a mustard seed from a household that has never witnessed a death. The young woman knocks on many doors. By the time she returns empty-handed to the Buddha, she has begun to grasp his lesson: all things in the world are impermanent, and to be ignorant of this fact is to be trapped in an endless cycle of craving, frustration and suffering...
Engell noted that upon the completion of Expos, students generally “feel good” about the course, though this impression changes by senior year. He suggested that this shift in student attitude may be caused by the fact that even after completing Expos, students struggle to grasp the stylistic demands of different departments...