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...material - almost certainly brass-all he could do was let the eye heal a little and hope to get at the object later. But there was grave danger that eye fluids would react with the metal and compel removal of the eye. Then Dr. Passmore remembered reading that Dr. Nathaniel Bronson II had begun work in New York on an ultrasound probe to locate foreign bodies in the eye within a millimeter. (X rays have an error range of three to four millimeters, which is considered to be too wide for an eye surgeon...
...first act ends with Thomas trying to explain 'the living legacy of the one up there" to Nathaniel. Thomas asks, "Do you understand?" Nathaniel takes three giant steps, shakes his head and moves offstage. Thomas, alone, tells us, "He didn't understand." This, unfortunately, was the quasitheatrical ending of only the first of three acts...
Artists of loftier vocation expatriated themselves to study in England and to absorb the classic mastery of Renaissance portraiture. John Singleton Copley was one such, but before he left U.S. shores, he had already put together a masterly portrait gallery of some of his fellow Bostonians. His Portrait of Nathaniel Hard, a famed silversmith and engraver, stares back at the observer with a keen, curious, probing intensity that is uncannily lifelike. As John Adams said of Copley's portraits: "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions and receiving answers...
...original planner, French Engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Pennsylvania Avenue was to be a symbolic "axis of the nation," balancing democracy at either end in the architecture of the executive White House and the legislative Capitol. Last week the Kennedy-launched Council on Pennsylvania Avenue, chaired by Architect Nathaniel A. Owings, released plans that might make L'Enfant's dream finally come true...
...Died. Nathaniel Peffer, 74, longtime (1938-58) Columbia University professor and author of many books on the Far East (China: The Collapse of a Civilization), a onetime Shanghai correspondent who by early 1948 concluded that the Chinese Communists were genuine Marxists and not merely "agrarian reformers," warned that only active U.S. intervention could save the Kuomintang, but still held out hope that the Chinese Reds would in the long run refuse to be merely "a tail to the Russian kite"; of a heart attack; in White Plains...