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Fragonard's rococo style and subject matter eventually lost favor with the public, which came to prefer the cool, luminous approach of Jacques-Louis David and other neoclassicists. Shortly after the Revolution began, Fragonard left Paris for Provence, but returned to the capital in 1792. By then, with many of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Visions of A Rococo Master | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

After receiving her degree from Radcliffe in 1955, Albright travelled to Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, for the 1956 Olympics. Skating to a Jacques Offenbach medley on February 2, 1956, Albright received from the judges eight 5.8s, two 5.7s, and one 5.6, out of possible score of 6.0.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Past Harvard Olympians Remininsce Days of Yesteryear | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

Some commentators predicted that Lacroix was too extreme and too irreverent to last, but he has only strengthened his position. Frustrated at Patou's reluctance to start a ready-to-wear line, he abruptly left in 1987, chased by a $13.1 million lawsuit. With Jean-Jacques Picart, a close friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Voila! It's Fun a Lacroix | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

At a time when American education more often disappoints than uplifts, at least one bright spot stands out: the U.S. graduate schools of engineering, science and math. "We have the best," brags Dean Ettore Infante of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology. One result is that students are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wanted: Fresh, Homegrown Talent | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

The idea for the conference itself began at Harvard last year, when Luxembourg Prime Minister Jacques Santer, in Cambridge to speak at Harvard's Model United Nations, first presented the idea of a commemoration to student organizers.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Talking Big Ideas in a Small Country | 1/6/1988 | See Source »

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