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...spring of 1883, Homer shut down his New York studio and moved to Prout's Neck, a narrow strip of rock on the Maine coast. There he found himself a cottage overlooking the sea--a good place for a man whose four favorite words, a friend recalled, were "Mind your own business." He spent 27 years at Prout's Neck, relieved by excursions to New York and fishing trips to the Caribbean, Florida and the Adirondacks. Its steep, sea-gnawed granite ledges became the emblematic landscape of his finest work. No artist since Turner had painted the sea with such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: WINSLOW HOMER: AMERICA'S SUPREME REALIST | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...measure, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 has had a trying semester: public service, alcohol policy and randomization have hung as albatrosses around his neck. As Lewis' second semester begins, he would do well to keep in mind the wishes of his primary constituency--his students--more than he has [in the fall] semester, although not to the detriment of decisions he believes crucial to the sound future of the College. And he should soften the edges of his terse communiques, termed brusque and blunt by many who have had frequent contact with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Year in Review | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

Horwitz is a Social Studies concentrator and is a resident of Currier House and Great Neck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Currier Senior Wins Fay Prize | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...morning after the speech, Dole opened the Senate (old habits die hard), then lit out for the territory--first stop, Chicago. He boarded the plane in his Senate uniform, dark suit, starched white shirt, sober tie, and then--Honey, get me wardrobe!--emerged in Chicago in khakis and open-neck shirt. "Quick-change artist," Dole quipped. Clothes make the new man. It was Bob Dole, Unplugged and Untied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: THE HARD WAY | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...President is calling. He wants you, the big cheese at Megawhiz Amalgamated, to come to Washington to discuss "corporate responsibility." You are thinking, "I need this? Wall Street is screaming for me to slash jobs and increase the stock price; competitors are breathing down my neck; and tort lawyers are cruising the open oceans of commerce like so many U-boats, hoping to catch my logo in their periscopes. And the President wants to discuss responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOOD FOR THE BOTTOM LINE | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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