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...eating at the page boys' table. By the time he returned to Nancy in 1621, he was a celebrated artist. By using a hard varnish on his plates, he was able to eliminate lines and create others at will. His etchings were sometimes little bigger than a postage stamp, sometimes about the size of a modern postcard. Peering through a magnifying glass that Galileo had given him, Callot was able to fill them with an incredible amount of detail. He did his share of portraits to please his patrons, but the entire baroque procession, in all its motley moods...
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Harvard Club of Rhode Island, the senior member of the Corporation, a Boston lawyer, claimed that his job would be "mainly to open the mail." He further asserted that he would like to sign all correspondence with a rubber stamp saying, "The President will be back...
...brief discussion of the University's governing bodies, Coolidge, who has been a Fellow since 1935, said that the Board of Overseers "is and must be a rubber stamp organization...
...Rubber Stamp. Designed to please everyone down on the farm, the bill has pleased hardly anyone on Capitol Hill. Legislators shudder at the prospect of a farmers' free-for-all as each group fights for the best deal it can get. Many big-city Democratic Congressmen want nothing to do with legislation that fattens the farmer -at the expense of the consumer. But what really irks both parties in both chambers is the fact that the bill takes away from Congress the power to write farm legislation and gives it to the farmers and Agriculture Secretary Freeman. Under...
...these pieces did not exploit the expressive possibilities of the medium, Alan Hovhaness' Tower Music did More than any other work, it had the stamp of a personal style. The loneliness of the Tower Music's themes and open fifths recalls the same composer's Mysterious Mountain. Unfortunately, it lacks the other's movement and contrasts: chord progressions march ponderously, and the melody must try awkwardly to mitigate the resulting heaviness. Nor did the performance help to contribute any motion or variation, although some nuance was apparent, especially in an oboe solo...