Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark of the Fifth Army sprawled on the dusty Italian earth. An artillery observer lay prone beside him at the forward observation post. The valley ahead rolled gently like background for a Raphael canvas, touched with hedge-rimmed farms and tiny rivulets under a deep blue sky. Far off, snug against a spiny, pine-covered ridge, rose the white and red buildings of a village on the hard road from Salerno to Naples. There the Germans were stubbornly but thinly entrenched. Allied shells whipped across the classic landscape, scuffed up geysers of smoke...
...Popes, Medicis, burghers and princes. ... Is it because Rockwell enjoys detail? If so, where does that put Vermeer, Dürer and Holbein? Is it because he puts the light of beauty ("sweetness," if you like) into the tired and commonplace? And if so, where does that leave Raphael, Correggio, Botticelli & Co.? . . . My impulse is to say "Nuts...
Dean Buck has been named chairman of the committee and John H. Finley, Jr. '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin is vice-chairman Other members are: Raphael Demos '19, associate professor of Philosophy; John T. Dunlop, faculty instructor in Economics; John M. Gaus '17, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning; Leigh Hoadley, professor of English; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History; Robert Ulich, professor of Education; Howard F. Wilson, associate professor of Education; and Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., associate professor of Government...
...Henri, José and Raphael Albouquer. One of these three brothers captured a post office and telephone exchange for the Americans. Another served as guide for a successful American mission. The third acted as interpreter for U.S. officers...
...members of the Harvard faculty, ranging from professors to instructors, are on the teaching staff for the current year. Professors include Raphael Demos, Philosophy; James Ford '04, Social Ethics; Morris B. Lambie, Government; Louis J. A. Mercier, French and Education; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, English Literature; Guillermo Rivera '09, Spanish; Ralph H. Wetmore, Botany; and Payson S. Wild, Government...