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...would be hard to improve on Sir Kenneth Clark's account of Fuseli's ambition: he wanted "to render the most dramatic episodes of Shakespeare in the pictorial language of Michelangelo." Fuseli was not a painter when he went to England in 1764, but a young Zwinglian minister whose liberal ideas had driven him out of Zurich. His intransigence grew with time, ripening into the melancholy sarcasm that was one of his more noted traits. "He is everything in extremes-always an original," wrote Fuseli's close friend, the physiognomist Lavater. "His look is lightning, his word...
...together by a mutual abhorrence of war. The most effective speakers are people who have the great est reason to be bitter: the wives and parents of young men killed on both sides of the Yom Kippur War. Their remembrances of their loved ones, of ten spoken through tears, render the desolation of personal loss, and make one ashamed of glib generalizations spouted from a safe distance west of Suez. "I understand their feeling of loss," an Israeli father says of Egyptians who also lost sons in 1973. "It is more than the loss of life, it is the loss...
...Supreme Court building. Personal reactions aside, they were faced with serious problems posed by Douglas' absence. The Justices decided to delay hearing arguments on five cases. Each one was picked not so much for its importance, but because without Douglas the others feared a tie vote that would render high-court consideration meaningless; it would simply leave a lower-court decision in effect...
Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin complained to reporters that President Ford's commission to investigate the Central Intelligence Agency was "very one-sided." Republican Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania questioned whether "a panel so dominated by those oriented to Government and the military intelligence establishment can render an independent judgment...
...civilian sector the same thing that we have in the armed forces, a Committee of Five [who investigate corruption charges]. Even if you do not have absolute proof of the kind you need in [our] courts to convict someone of corruption, if you have enough information you can render a verdict outside the judiciary...