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Which is not to say he hadn't learned from Europe. His paintings of children sometimes reach for a rough kind of classical energy. The frieze-line of kids running parallel to the picture plane in Snap the Whip, 1872, brings to mind the dancing putti on Donatello's Cantoria in Florence. He had a knack for inserting distant echoes of the classical into the forms of common life, and doing it so subtly that you're scarcely aware of them at first. Homer went to London in 1881 and then settled in the village of Cullercoats on the coast...
...with the U.S. Forest Service's southwestern region: "We have kiddingly called the Carson the asbestos forest because it is always so wet and at such a high elevation that it never burns. With the Carson burning, and so early, that told us this was going to be a rough summer...
Farmers and ranchers across the blistered Southwest and Lower Plains have already experienced a rough spring, with no relief on the horizon. They have watched winter-wheat crops wither and die. Kansas normally produces 360 million to 420 million bushels of wheat annually; the estimate for this year is 185 million bushels. "Personally, I think those estimates are a bit high," says Mike Brown, president of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers. "I hope they're on the low side, but I wouldn't be surprised if [the crop] was below 150 million...
...Freedom to Farm Act represents an attempt to wean farmers from price supports and occasional expensive supplemental federal disaster-relief bills with a system of fixed cash subsidies and low-cost, $50-per-crop insurance. Given these benefits, the reasoning went, farmers would be able to tide themselves over rough times without requiring ad hoc handouts. Almost no one thought this theory would be subjected to such a stern test so soon after the bill's passage...
...done a wonderful job especially relating with the students who slip through the cracks here at Harvard. When a student does need help through some rough sports, Elizabeth is there to help them through the rough spots," resident tutor David D. Kane said...