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...work. Van Dyck's portraits of Charles and Queen Henrietta Maria fixed them for posterity with a completion that few later artists could rival. They have the subtlest quality of propaganda: they make you forget that they are propaganda. If we think of Charles as the cultivated king par excellence, it is largely thanks to Van Dyck. There cannot be a more tender and intimate royal portrait than his effigy of the couple in conversation in a rocky landscape, their bonding signified by, among other things, their dress -- he in pink slashed silk with pale gray showing beneath...
Harvard libraries could opt for another possibility that would dramatically increase security: joining the electronic world and installing magnetic detection devices. We could then boast to be on par with the technological giants of the community, like the Boston Public Library, the Kennedy School Library, CVS and Newbury Comics...
...par," he whispered. "The students are second-rate...
...thought a lot more on the field against Dartmouth," Morris said. "The MIT game was an ugly one, but our scrum and line out work was up to par this weekend...
...kind of team we know we should beat," Marshall said. "They're sort of on par with...