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...University, appointed Professor of the History of Art in 1875. Norton was something of a renaissance man: aside from his scholarship in Fine Arts, he was one of the founders of Atlantic magazine, a translator of Dante (eventually he taught the first course on Dante at Harvard), and a pioneer in classical archaeology...
Notable American Women condenses vast amounts of scholarship into three volumes, presenting the complicated questions that feed into women's history in an objective, thoughtful and readable manner. The individual portraits were written by numerous scholars and authors from around the country (one of the best, on the pioneer cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict, was penned by Donald Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History, who is not known for his sympathy towards women) and double-checked by scores of graduate students and researchers. The comprehensiveness of the work is borne out by the fact that the editors have been notified...
...that is really the subsoil that enables the Jewish lobby to flourish. Non-Jewish Americans harbor profound sentiments toward Israel that have nothing to do with Jewish lobbying: a sense of something owed the Jewish people after the Nazi Holocaust; shared religious roots and democratic ideals; admiration for the pioneer spirit of the Israeli nation builders, so seemingly akin to America's own beginnings; empathy for the underdog diminished after the Israelis' victory in 1967. Besides there were the geopolitical, cold war realities of the 1950s, when Arab governments turned to the Soviet Union for aid in their efforts...
Fuseli's relaxation from blood was lust. The most eminent of his lovers was the pioneer of English feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft-at the very period in the 1790s when she was writing her Vindication of the Rights of Women. He seems to have viewed the woman he married, Sophia Rawlins, as a cruel dominator. The image suited his sexual proclivities. Several hundred of his erotic drawings were burned by his wife after he died, and most of the survivors are about either masochism or hair fetishism or both. But he did produce one of the great sexual images...
...judges did not make the same mistake this year. Winnowing hundreds of nominations from 15 countries, they chose the final recipient last week. She is Limnologist Ruth Patrick, 67, a much-honored pioneer in the study of water pollution, who is now chairman of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences. "She has done more to develop ideas about stream pollution and to bring such ideas forcibly before the world of industry than anyone now working," says Hutchinson. Indeed, Patrick played a key role in shaping the U.S.'s clean water act. Next month she will fulfill the Tyler...