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...inherit his vast fortune and buy Ray a new boat. And spirited Yvonne keeps sneaking out of the seraglio to sigh against Ray's shoulder and warn him to be careful. Ray has scarcely time left over to retrieve the missing husband, dispose of Badman Lederer, spurn Maureen, see Rains led off to jail, and walk into the blue dawn with lovely, cat-eyed Yvonne...
Molten Light. Rembrandt's early popularity among his countrymen (who were to spurn the full flowering of his genius) was solidly rooted in the artistic techniques of both Italy and northern Europe. His early teacher in Leiden had studied in Italy, there learned Caravaggio's trick of sharply contrasting light and shadow, to make light itself the most dramatic element in the picture. Rembrandt's painting, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, done when the artist was only 24, already shows both Rembrandt's love of Biblical subjects and the virtuoso control of light that gives...
...least that's what the labels say," explains the mate) in a cutthroat poker game with three lugubrious seamen, he offers 1) his ship, and 2) a monumentally configured and barely clothed native girl that he happens to own, in one last, grand gamble. The other players spurn the ship at first, but accept when the dame is offered as collateral. Etienne's bet: a trapped fly will light on his lump of sugar, rather than his opponents...
Some voters may spurn four-year terms, feeling that as planner and administrator the Governor and cabinet should stand frequent tests of public confidence. Yet biennial legislative elections provide abundant popular guidance since the General Court limits and supplements the Governor's program by approving, modifying, or rejecting his proposals. The four-year term would enhance, rather than cripple public control: with four years' aging, the flaws and virtues of a state administration would become more apparent...
...standard technical education methods have received sharp criticism from sources within the engineering profession itself, including, most recently, a group of articles in the official magazine of the national engineering honor society. In their attempts at solving this dilemma, educators have so far achieved only limited success. Engineering students spurn a normal liberal arts education followed by two years of graduate work because of their notorious haste to enter active practice. Even arrangements to cut this time down, such as that between M.I.T. and sixteen small colleges, can handle only a small number of students because of the size...