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Strangely, James thus made a valuable contribution to the very disciplined in which he felt least skillful. His pragmatic doctrine provides criteria for selecting among various axiom and, hence, for influencing the development of logical structures at their foundations. But, unlike Pierce, would not revel in the systems their such a program might generate...
Outlandish Revels. The drawing of a child's head that he did at 14, as well as a watercolor from his late teens, prove that he was a meticulous craftsman who could, if he had wanted, have bent to any fashion. But he wanted, as he said in a short story that he wrote about an artist who was obviously himself, to "revel in outlandish subjects." He could sometimes give a moonlit sky the same haunted-universe feeling as his contemporary, Albert Ryder. He could paint a game of croquet or a scene in Central Park with such feathery...
...question is: What can the white man do? Jimmy Baldwin judges the hearts of his white audiences who either revel in masochism or are too afraid, too apathetic, too charitable, or-is it possible-too humble to shout back...
...book Chekhov in My Life, that she was the writer's secret lifelong passion. Chekhov's only love. Simmons insists, was Olga Knipper, one of the first of a long series of famous actresses (including Dame Sybil Thorndike. Dame Judith Anderson and Katharine Cornell) to revel in Chekhov's rich feminine roles. Olga played Masha in the first production of The Three Sisters, in 1901, and married the playwright three years before his death at 44. If the play provided Chekhov with a wife, its ending also serves as his best epitaph: "The music plays so gaily...
...students called the newspaper's account highly exaggerated. But Komsomolskaya Pravda insisted that the railroad revel began in Moscow, when the college kids approached train No. 13, "bawling bawdy songs and clinging to each other like sailors during a storm." No sooner had the wheels begun to roll than "these savages from overseas started to guzzle liquor and shriek wildly. They tossed pillows at each other and stuck lampshades on their heads. Then they took their clothes off and began running after the girls in their own delegation...