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...virtue of powers which we have invented," the baroque lettering proclaimed, the trustees of San Francisco's Millard Fillmore Institute were delighted to confer on any applicant a variety of "honorary and meretricious" titles ranging from "Doctor of Generosity" to "Doctor of Pinochle Sciences." All he needed was $10. A Latin motto made the point clear: Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute novi' (Loose translation: "You may think you're hot stuff, but we know you, buster...
...producer and promoter of the Now Sound - which emanates from his two culture centers, the Fillmore West on San Francisco's Market Street and the Fillmore East on Manhattan's Second Avenue. He also runs a record company (called Fillmore) and a booking agency (called Millard, naturally...
...Whig," John Kennedy once said disdainfully. What he meant was that unlike his predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower, and the 19th century Whigs William Henry Harrison and Millard Fillmore, he intended to be an activist President. Richard Nixon is something of a Whig, by choice as well as by circumstance. In his Inaugural, he celebrated "small, splendid efforts" of individual men. There are conflicting pulls on him, within his own party and in the country that gave him less than a majority last November and still reflects deep division in such splits as the Senate ABM vote...
...peace because his mind was "focused on mutiny." The defense brought in an acoustical expert who said that the prisoners in the enclosed courtyard could not have heard Lament's warning carried over a loudspeaker. The charge of mutiny itself was questioned by Army Investigator Captain Richard J. Millard. In a report that was never revealed to the court, Millard wrote: "To charge mutiny, an offense which has its roots in the harsh admiralty laws of the previous centuries, for demonstrating against conditions that existed in the stockade, is, in my opinion, a miscarriage of justice...
...Jerome [on this page and opposite] is no more like the finished fresco than the youthful Dorian Gray was like his aging portrait. The sinopia shows a handsome young man; the fresco, a gnarled and suffering ascetic. The difference is so striking that Princeton's Renaissance scholar Millard Meiss suggests that perhaps the sinopia was by a different artist...