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Around 1715 a German immigrant artist named Justus Kuhn painted one of the young sons of the Maryland oligarchy, Henry Darnall III: a 10-year-old baroque doll, gazed at by an adoring slave boy in a silver collar. The balustrade behind him and the formal gardens and pavilions behind that are complete fictions. No properties in America looked like this. Kuhn was meeting the illusory desire of Colonial gentry to seem like important extensions of European culture. It would be a recurrent fantasy. Fifty years later, in Boston, one sees John Singleton Copley doing much the same in some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEAUTY OF BIG | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

Irene Wozny, 40, is an attorney for the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation in Baltimore. She is fortunate enough to have found work she enjoys, but every so often she gets derailed by chronic major depression, a mental illness that can cause a loss of self-esteem, an inability to concentrate and a negative outlook on life. Wozny has been troubled by the disease for as long as she can remember. Last year she learned of an experimental program for depression run by the National Institute of Mental Health, but in order to participate, she needed to arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MENTAL ADJUSTMENT | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...ECACs is a four-team, double-elimination tournament for the top Eastern teams that didn't make the NCAAs. This year the field included among others, top-ranked Maryland and No. 4 Fairfield. Harvard was ranked second, having swept Cornell in a two-game series earlier this season...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Softball Falls to Cornell, Finishes Second in ECACs | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

...second game on Saturday, Harvard defeated host Fairfield, 2-1, to stay alive in the tournament. Then, surprisingly Cornell topped Maryland--the Atlantic Coast Conference co-champions--which pitted the Terrapins against the Crimson in the first Sunday game...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Softball Falls to Cornell, Finishes Second in ECACs | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

...tired of role models' coming from the sports arena. If our future is in the hands of one man's putt, it is a bleak future." KIENEN MASON Baltimore, Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 12, 1997 | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

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