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...introduction to the exhibit, Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald wrote: "The covers represent only a fraction of TIME's coverage of French affairs. But they outline the changes both in the American view of France and in the institution known as the newsmagazine." Stanley Hoffmann, professor of French civilization at Harvard, who supplied the accompanying first commentary, noted, "While the French have long thought that Americans had an image of France that was simultaneously archaic, sentimental and condescending, this is not the image that emerges from TIME's covers." Hoffmann counted 73 covers on political...
Those commissioned include Carnesale and Stanley H. Hoffmann. Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France...
...heroic portraits of Adolf Hitler that decorated German government offices during the Nazi regime were mainly slavish copies of those done by Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's official photographer. Last week, 37 years after the German leader's death, the only known candid live portrait of the Fuhrer, carefully hidden from the Gestapo by the worried artist Klaus Richter, went on display at the Berlin Museum for the first time. Richter caught Hitler in profile almost by accident in 1941, while making sketches for a commissioned portrait of Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goring. The German leader suddenly appeared with Benito...
Another gift in high demand this holiday season is "time." Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor, John E. Dowling, Biology Professor, Stanley Hoffmann, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, William Alfred, Kenan Professor of English, and Margaret E. Law, Registrar of the Faculty, each asks for more time off or more time...
...Hoffmann doesn't need formal exercise, he claims. "Lecturing is a very good way of keeping in shape. It is a huge expense of energy, and preparing for lectures is something that makes one extremely anxious, so that has some effect on one's physical form. I find that I am one of those people who can eat like a horse and never gain weight." What he really likes to do is walk. "I find that I get ideas when I walk...