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...book by Gil Troy ’82, named by History News Network as one of America’s Top 15 Young Historians. As one might expect from a historian, the book is less a contemporary look at Hillary Clinton and more a historical study that covers oft-tread terrain of Hillary’s upbringing, her years at Wellesley and Yale, and her stint in the White House...
...white and green boutonnieres, tossing red, white and green ribbons into passing cars. Then gradually the crowd began to gather at focal points and to express its will, and then to march. A scared Communist official told an American businessman: 'The earth is moving.' The earth moved to the tread of a million feet in Hungary last week, and a satellite which had been blindly spinning in the Soviet orbit for eleven years suddenly swung out of its gravitational course into a still unsteady national axis. It had never happened before. As the world looked on, incredulous, a people armed...
...frequently changing lanes on a crowded highway: you rarely get where you're going faster, and you risk a wreck. Recognize that strong recent performance often signals an investment opportunity that has passed. It's best to heed Alexander Pope's admonishment: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread...
Other songs tread on more familiar territory for The Decemberists. “Shankill Butchers,” a macabre lullaby about a gang of savage Northern Irish killers, could be this album’s “Clementine.” Similarly reminiscent of earlier albums, the following track, “Summersong,” is a wonderfully breezy folk-pop story of waning summer love...
...course was that Picasso had no interest in issuing directives. His ceaseless ventures in style and technique were more like challenges. And eventually the painters who would rise most spectacularly to the challenge would break out into realms of lyrical abstraction where even Picasso did not care to tread. Or was it, did not dare to? In the postwar era, as Picasso's powers of invention were waning, the Americans entered the rooms to which he had given them a key but had never entered. Just look at Pink Angels, in which de Kooning deconstructed Picasso's deconstructions of human...