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...called pictorialists, photographers given to arty blurs and poses. He also disliked the canonical painters of the American sublime, Bierstadt and Moran. "Indians and bears walking out to the edge of cliffs!" he snorts. "They'd paint the Half Dome as though it were chewing gum. No essence, no spirit???just scene painting." Adams' problem was to find a modernist vision in photography, one that corresponded to the postimpressionist avantgarde, whose works he had glimpsed at the San Francisco Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915. In 1930 he saw that vision in the work of a photographer twelve years...
...fall on grounds virtually indistinguishable from Kennedy's. It was then that Kennedy felt a double crunch, from within and from without. To run and lose would be to risk his entire political career. To remain on the sidelines would be to violate his own principles and his pugnacious spirit???and perhaps throw away his future as events passed him by. Already the liberals whom he had so assiduously cultivated were deserting...
...suggests that the church should abandon the Trinity, on the ground that it really seems to be preaching three Gods instead of one. Christianity, in his view, should stop attributing specific actions to persons of the Trinity?creation to the Father, redemption to the Son, inspiration to the Holy Spirit???and just say that they were all the work...
...there are those," cried Stanley Baldwin, and looked Winston Churchill in the eye, "if there are those who, if they were in the majority in our party, would approach this question in a niggling, grudging spirit???who would have had forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another?for God's sake let them choose another man to lead them! But, if they are in a minority, let them refrain from throwing difficulties in the way of those who have undertaken an almost superhuman task on the successful accomplishment of which depends the prosperity of the British Empire...
...family, was in Manhattan. Secretary of Labor Davis was there. Bishop Freeman and ex-President Hadley of Yale were there. President Humphries of Boston Tech, Otto Kahn of the Metropolitan Opera, Colonel Lindsay of the American Legion, Senators Oddie and Pittman were there. Even President Coolidge was there?in spirit???among 10,000 others who had written tributes to Mr. Hammond...