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...sponsored by Luise Vosgerchian, professor of Music. Vosgerchian is one member of the Music Department for whom Krag has high praise. "The more I can talk to her, the happier I'll be, because she just knows so much." Unlike some music professors, who approach music as literature, something purer when read than heard, "she can inspire anyone to love music...
...trip without having someone ask me that question. Well, I don't know any writer who doesn't have fantasies of at least accepting prizes. But if you have accepting prizes in your head, you can't get to the business at hand. The ambition behind work should get purer. In the beginning there is the drive to be recognized. But if you can resist the whole success business you can really realize what you want...
...soluble paint-purposely duller in tone than the original hues, so that the restoration would be distinguishable to the trained eye. Exulted Dini last month, after nearly six years' work in San Marco: "Look how Fra Angelico's colors have come forth again. They are so much purer, so much more brilliant...
McPherson shrewdly contrasts the congressional personality with the presidential. To be effective, he says, the legislator must master the black arts of the back room; this spoils his image for the general public, which seeks a purer hero for President. John Kennedy understood this, says McPherson, and shirked his senatorial duties while making himself appealing to the public. To Lyndon Johnson, says McPherson, J.F.K. was the "enviably attractive nephew who sings an Irish ballad for the company and then winsomely disappears before the table clearing and dishwashing begin...
...fees from auto-accident cases. Though their self-interest is obvious, the lawyers raise some troubling points. For generations it has been considered only just for an injured person to collect damages for the intangible costs of an accident, including psychological "costs" like long periods of suffering. Under the "purer" forms of no-fault, some victims of another driver's carelessness or negligence would not be allowed to sue for such damages...