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...painting, he decided, is above all a painting and not a picture. Whatever it represents is secondary; the lines and colors on the canvas are what matter. So in stead of holding a mirror up to nature, he decided to make free with her. That set tled, he spread his former paintings on the floor and regarded them as from a great distance. They showed that he had studied nature long and hard. Also, he "found something that was always the same and which at first glance I thought to be monotonous repetition. It was the mark of my personality...
...ROTC gives a course in world political geography in the senior year, and the Army gives its advanced students a History of Military Warfare. These are the courses, however, which most aptly fit into the sphere of liberal education. Certainly they would stand the two-year man in better stead than learning the armed forces' pay rates, the powder charge in a 10,000-pound bomb, and the differing millimeters of shells...
...Weste upon usse Sir Alaine the Ladd, whych is siccar the most onnatural knight that ever was my doole to see. Ho! Ho! For hee kann not gat his legs arounde a propre Hors, beeing knocken knee. Therfor muste an other ryde into battail in his stead, whiles hee sits pyght and pritty on a woodan tubbe ycovred in hors hyde, and doth preetende to make the onslaught-slishe! slashe!-a-straking o' the air on's Sworde, and a-brasting of's cheekes wi' greate shoutes wold fright, I trow, the Lice offe Launcelot...
Since then two other buildings partially destroyed by fire, have seen new structures in their stead. Massachusetts Hall was badly burned in 1924 and required about $176,000 to replace it. Two years later the Rotch building, north of Langdell Hall, caught fire. It had been the Carey Athletic Building until Carey Cage was erected...
...everyday life of Pakistan and are chiefly responsible for the nation's stability. Governor General Ghulam Mohammad is one of them. In April 1953 Ghulam Mohammad casually dismissed a roly-poly Premier named Nazi-muddin for incompetence and appointed the little-known Mohammed Ali in his stead. Ali had been a highly successful Ambassador to the U.S. but had no political strength of his own. Progressive-minded, he opposed those who wanted Pakistan to become a rigidly theocratic state. Ghulam Mohammad and Ali together negotiated the U.S.-Pakistan alliance...