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...fluently as the average commercial artist, and like most perfectionists he was stammeringly conscious of his failure to paint perfectly. If he had not inherited a comfortable income from his banker father, and been blessed with a stoically believing wife and a businesslike son to manage his affairs, the "Hermit of Aix" might never have created such powerful...
...Garbo, to her and no other." Neighbors recalled that Donne had once bought himself some new clothes and set out for Hollywood; after he got back he never talked about it. He once wrote Garbo a letter; it came back stamped "Refused." The local probate judge estimated that lonely Hermit Donne was worth about $20,000. Postscript to the will: "If Greta Garbo becomes my wife, then it goes to Greta Lovisa Donne." One neighbor firmly believed that Donne was a descendant of Elizabethan Poet John Donne ("I must love her that loves...
Broadway at 42nd Street would seem a hermit's haven to those who must suffer and wait in long lines at the Boylston and Widener Reading Rooms. Constantly overflowing with men competing for the few available books on their assigned reading lists, the rooms constitute a continual migraine for both students and faculty. No section man can adequately explain the reading when many of the students have not done the work, and the students are left in a hopeless state of frustration by taking quizzes on subjects they know nothing about. The problem is a very simple one; there...
...like alabaster and a beard like carded wool sat on his bed, raised his blue eyes to heaven and died. Cardinals had sought his blessing, popes had humored his whims and solicited his advice. Yet Philip Neri was neither a mighty prince of the church nor a hair-shirt hermit of the desert. He was a saint...
...fully as great as those of upper classmen, sliding along smoothly in their scholastic grooves. All that remains, then, is the misassumption that veterans, like non-veteran Freshmen, need an added stimulus to find recreation and meet people. Months of community living have removed all vestiges of the hermit instinct from most ex-service men. They know how to go about meeting other men and making new friends. Compulsion will not work here; nor will it work to make exercise recreation to those who don't already consider it as such...