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...book adds another nuance to our romanticized portrait of the Illinois Rail-Splitter. But the argument that Lincoln’s mental condition was central to his greatness loses steam...
...might have changed it, and how policy makers might act so as to manage international conflict,” Frieden added. An economics professor who taught at Harvard for over 30 years, Schelling is considered one of the founding members of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), and his portrait is displayed along the Littauer Center staircase with other famous faculty who lectured in Harvard’s classrooms. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy Richard J. Zeckhauser ’62 noted that Schilling had an incredible presence during his time at Harvard. “People would wait...
...near life-size bronze, it shows a young woman on her knees reaching out vainly to a man being led away by another woman. This desolate ensemble was supposed to be an allegory of man's inevitable journey toward death. Rodin had no trouble finding in it a disguised portrait of himself, Beuret and Claudel. After the work was first exhibited in public, the French government abruptly decided against purchasing it. Historians suspect that Rodin may have been behind the cancellation. Certainly Claudel...
...until the 11th chapter does he fully reveal how profoundly the war has changed him. His self-portrait reads: “25 years old and nothing to live for.” He can no longer relate to his former life...
...Caravaggio.” In this work, she often refers to the words of Caravaggio’s 16th century biographers (and more recent ones, too), and integrates all opinions about his work and his life, in order to paint her own admiring and sometimes contagiously enthusiastic portrait of a brilliant, yet quite shady, character...