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When we think of brilliance we see Einstein, deep-eyed, woolly haired, a thinking machine with skin and mismatched socks. High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in...
ONCE AGAIN TIME HAS FAILED TO PRESENT anything approaching an objective view of the proceedings in our nation's capital. Robert Hughes' rantings about the Republican assault on the "arts" is more liberal drivel. To equate the pseudo art funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with Thomas Jefferson...
Today how good does he look? A large retrospective jointly organized by London's Tate Gallery, Paris' Musee d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington (where it is on view through Aug. 20) offers the evidence. Whistler was an artist whose legend as wit, dandy and aesthetic...
Sure, it's been an unusual year, but The Economist doesn't think we have to consider it any further, because, after all, we're "America's oldest and richest...with more name-recognition and cachet than almost any other American college." The Economist seems so dazzled by our greatness...
Blessed with a host of talent and some enthusiastic young faces, Harvard never quite came into sync as a unit, as brief glimpses of greatness showed themselves to be far too rare.