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...have a far more commendable manner." Small planets in the gravitational field of an immense talent, some would eventually break out of orbit to make independent careers for themselves, but all of them -- while they were with Rembrandt -- had to work his way or not at all. Hence the peculiar fact, a connoisseur's bad dream, that the very parts of Rembrandt's work that seem most uniquely his -- the "unconscious" hookings and flourishes of line in some of the drawings, for instance -- were just what apprentices like Ferdinand Bol were best at imitating. The more gifted ones would work...
...also mounted some damn peculiar crusades. In the late '70s, he headed up a War on Drugs -- and like everyone else who has ever done so, he lost. This was in the days when first-offense possession of any amount of marijuana was a two-to-life felony in Texas -- wasn't as though you could have got tougher on drugs. Perhaps his most famous crusade was "Tell It to Hanoi!," an effort to succor and free the American pows held by the North Vietnamese in the early 1970s. While Perot focused the nation's attention on the plight...
Perot brought his "Tell It to Hanoi!" campaign to the Texas state capitol in 1971 on what may still be the single weirdest day in the history of that peculiar institution. Jets roared over Austin in "missing man" formation, while beneath the rotunda, in hour after hour of bloodstained oratory, brows were darkened and teeth gnashed over the fate of Our Boys. It was a patriotic orgy, although, as the Texas Observer noted at the time, no one uttered a peep about exactly what Our Boys were doing over there when they got caught. One received the impression that they...
...charge that Harvard is hostile to the new fields of study is "peculiar" and "unfounded," says Thernstrom, who is a social historian. Harvard has been a pioneer in the field, he says, citing the works of Handlin and Bailyn...
While American politics must regain its lost "intellectuality", some of Japan's "peculiar aspects" in government can learn from U.S. policy, he said...