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Copley never did master the grand manner as prescribed by Reynolds. His huge, ambitious history painting, Watson and the Shark, 1778, is a beloved American classic thanks to, not in spite of, its earnest potpourri of quotations from Titian, Raphael, the Borghese Gladiator and the Laocoon. But at the level of the portrait he was exact and forceful. The tight, heavy faces, didactic hands and subtly registered expressions of Copley's New Englanders read like indexes of American character, and his painting of Thomas and Sarah Mifflin (1773) is one of the great 18th century images of the enlightened...
...conducting a referendum to determine the prevailing sentiment regarding this matter. The logic behind the referendum, then is this: the concert is being planned for Harvard undergraduates; if those undergraduates do not wish us to hold the concert, it would be silly to do so. The fact that Stu Raphael has additional reasons for the referendum should not take away from the Council's basic logic any more than the statements of Professor Bossert should take away from the Faculty's logic in supporting the Core Curriculum...
...fear that the Council does not want to use the referendum to help make a decision, but to justify one already made. "If anything goes wrong with the concert, it takes the blame off us if we have student approval," argued Stuart A. Raphael '86 in the floor debate on whether to hold the referendum. Such logic flies in the face of responsible, representative government. Students should avoid the many traps hidden in the referendum by taking a ballot and, instead of marking yes or no, indicating that they feel the vote should not have been taken...
...anything goes wrong with the concert, it takes the blame off us if we have student approval," said Stuart A. Raphael...
...freshman swimmer has been taken off a respirator, and now can talk. Doctors have found most of her vital signs normal, and have placed her on the "serious" list, Kelly Anthony, spokesman of the Yale-affiliated St. Raphael's Hospital, said yesterday...