Word: samuel
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Nothing was to distress the trade more than Keating's versions of the work of Samuel Palmer (1805-81), whose moonlit landscapes of Shoreham are among the most sought-after works in English romantic landscape painting. Palmer made some 80 Shoreham watercolors, oils and drawings; Keating made 80 more-mainly by copying details of Palmers and cobbling them together. The first such "Palmer" was sold to a British museum by Colnaghi's, a major Bond Street dealer, in 1965. In 1969 another "Palmer," titled Sepham Barn, went at auction to the Leger Galleries...
...CONGRESS. COME AND SEE THE FACE OF JESUS ON HIS BURIAL CLOTH. Inside, pilgrims viewed photos of the Holy Shroud of Turin, the purported burial cloth on which Jesus' image appears. Near by there were booths offering clerical clothing and T shirts, booths advocating sainthood for Italian Missionary Samuel Mazzuchelli and publicizing struggling Catholic colleges...
Weinglass and the Harrises had no complaints about Prosecutor Samuel Mayerson, who laid out his case with cool, professional thoroughness. But emotional clashes almost immediately erupted between the defense and Judge Mark Brandler, 66. On occasion Harris lost his temper and once cursed Brandler. A bitter defense disappointment came when Brandler refused to bar admission of a tape sent to an L.A. radio station on which Harris talked about the shootout; both defense and prosecution experts had testified that the tape could have been altered...
...they could be found on all sides. The chief justice and prosecutor of the witch trials was William Stoughton (A.B. 1650), whose bloodthirstiness led him, when Governor Phips eventually ordered a halt, to try to hurry three more people up the hangman's steps. Allied with him was Judge Samuel Sewall (A.B. 1671), who five years later publicly confessed his error. Among the witch-hunting clergymen the most active was John Hale...
William Larsen is acceptable as the paranoid and pompous Reverend Samuel Parris, who won't give an inch about anything: "I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College." Actually, Miller's scholarship slipped here, for Parris did not hold a Harvard degree. The late historian Samuel Eliot Morison, who wrote book after book on Harvard's first 300 years, stated that Parris may perhaps have attended the College for a time around 1672-74, but was not a graduate. Harvard was at times lax in its early attendance-keeping...