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...decade and were immensely popular on the Continent. In their desire to get back to nature, the English Romantics also abandoned the ruins of Italy in favor of the English countryside and Alpine vistas. Crusty J.M.W. Turner seems to have been the first artist to visit Switzerland for the sake of sketching its mountains, but his Cottage Destroyed by an Avalanche is a vision of nature's destructive forces rather than the record of any event...
...Egleson spoke out against the kind of resistance whose primary motivation is moralistic and personal rather than political. He is saying that we must make ourselves relevant to the social and political condition of the world and must not just take a moral posture for our own soul's sake, even though that too is a risk...
...doubt if most of my readers really believe in palmistry, but for any who do or are interested in my predictions merely for the sake of entertainment, I can generally be found around Harvard Square. I read the right hand mainly. The left hand, according to tradition, is one's fortune at birth, his inherited fortune, while the right hand indicates what one is making of his fortune. It is therefore more current, more accurate for the present. I generally look first at the life line (the curved one nearest the base of the thumb) and give a prediction...
IPHIGENIA IN AULIS. Euripides examines the limits to which a man's blind ambition can push him in the appalling story of Agamemnon's sacrifice of his own daughter for the sake of winning a military victory. As a wronged wife and wounded mother, Irene Papas is a vessel of chained intensity...
Consternation reigned at the Basel Museum. The foundation intimated that a wealthy American had offered $2,560,000 for the Picassos, but for the sake of sentiment, it would be willing to let the museum have them for a mere $1,950,000. The museum's annual acquisitions fund is only $65,000, but the Basel city government voted to contribute $1,372,000, provided that the remaining $578,000 could be raised from private sources. Dozens of townsfolk pitched in to raise the money, schoolchildren canvassed the streets, artists offered paintings and pottery for sale at a street...