Word: superbness
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...paints a self-portrait, old, toothless, wrinkled, wearing a cotton cap, a painting from life, in a mirror ... and, why or how I cannot tell ... Rembrandt paints a supernatural angel with a Da Vinci smile within that old man who resembles himself." That description certainly fits the superb 1669 Rembrandt self-portrait, on loan from London's National Gallery, currently hanging beside Van Gogh's own 1888 Self-Portrait as an Artist. It is the centerpiece of "Vincent's Choice: The Musée Imaginaire of Van Gogh," a stunning new show at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum. Celebrating...
...placed The Dante Club on my syllabus because, perhaps more than most critical works, it breathes new life into the Divine Comedy,” Pertile wrote in an e-mail. “[It] is a superb work of fiction that mixes history and fantasy in such a brilliant way as to make history more vivid than fiction...
...Pinker has an outstandingly analytic mind, is a superb synthesizer, is productive, and is contributing novel ideas to the field,” he wrote...
...goal was credited to junior Trevor Reschny, and it was the only dimple in an otherwise superb effort by the freshman, an effort that left Mazzoleni buzzing post-game...
...there were a national program with the broader goal of training qualified college graduates to teach in districts that need them, TFA’s mission of placing only the very best applicants in the most disadvantaged areas would be a superb complement to it. But as it is, TFA is pretty much the only way for seniors who do not plan to teach as a career, and who have no formal teaching credentials, to make an immediate impact in the classroom. There is a massive teacher shortage, and TFA cannot ignore the fact that almost every applicant it turns...