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Confronted with this picture, it's not hard to see where stereotypes about today's college students come from. We're supposedly all self-interested, career-driven and politically apathetic. We've turned our backs on the public sphere and want to make our first million before...
...rare to have something this major in the extracurricular sphere," Epps says. "This effort is on par with earlier efforts...
...Memorable not for Nixon's indiscretions, but for its respect for the higher calling of public service, it was a lesson Schlesinger built his life in the public sphere around--the public good always comes before personal gain...
...separation of the sexes transcended the social sphere, going beyond the pristine Radcliffe dorms into the newly coeducational classrooms, where exams and sections were segregated by sex and professors factored gender into grades...
...other hand, consider an older Spaniard like Ignacio Zuloaga, long regarded as the discreditable essence of flashy, virtuoso academism. The picture he has in the show--a portrait of a sulky-looking, middle-aged dwarf holding a mirrored sphere the size of a soccer ball, in homage to that god of all Spanish realists, Velazquez--is a masterpiece of unsparing scrutiny and direct painting, and it brings you up with a jerk...