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Around the league, Maris is known as a "loner" who shuns locker-room monkeyshines, rarely displays emotion on or off the field. After a ball game, still in uniform, Maris sits quietly on a stool in front of his locker for an hour or more, slowly consuming cans of beer and smoking cigarettes. "I just have to get the game out of my system," he says. Maris never answers fan mail personally ("I got enough work to do without writing letters"), makes few charity appearances. "The club shouldn't expect you to go to hospitals. They...
Basic to the Dean's proposal is the fact that the American law teacher has been a "loner." He is burdened with heavy teaching assignments since there are insufficient funds for the employment of junior teachers. Legal scholarship has thus focused around personal teaching. This is not always desirable says Griswold, for it "leaves little room at a for juniors whose talents in the field of legal scholarship, commentary, and leadership lie in other areas than teaching...
...that soon won him the esteem of fellow painters. He was invited to join Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and others in a group of younger revolutionary artists called die Brücke (the Bridge), who had set up shop in 1905 in an empty Dresden butcher's store. A loner by instinct, he quit them after a year and a half, afraid that togetherness would dilute his grim, self-imposed sense of artistic mission. Similarly, he shunned the trail-blazing Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) circle, although he had the admiration of both Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, who called Nolde...
...Loner. Son of a painter, Crivelli studied under the Paduan master Francesco Squarcione, who also taught Andrea Mantegna. Squarcione was a perfectionist who made his pupils spend day after day copying veined marble and Roman bronzes, the more intricate the better. Their paintings were fastidious, and their surfaces glowed like enamel. Crivelli never lost his sternly disciplined technique or his ability to make a canvas sparkle as if he had been working, not with brush and paint, but with gold and jewels...
They were attributes prized by his contemporaries. Prince Ferdinand of Capua, for instance, made Crivelli a knight, and in his later years Crivelli proudly signed his paintings with his Latin title "Miles." But essentially, he was a loner. Though he had lived in Venice, he spent most of his life in the hilly region called The Marches on the Adriatic. There he worked alone, perfecting a style that has intrigued and puzzled critics ever since...