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...reproduction, one of many. And though even a reproduction of a great painting can have a powerful effect, there is something magical about the uniqueness of the original, the knowledge that Rembrandt applied his brush just here, nowhere else, and never again. Or somebody did. So we wander into that philosophical bramble patch at the edge of the legendary forest where the legendary tree falls and nobody is there to hear whether it makes a sound. Is the famous Etruscan warrior whom the Metropolitan Museum declared a fake some years ago any less handsome than he was back when...
Even though the book starts out dull with a fairy tale about the discovery of Texas, it hits high gear after about 50 pages. From then on, all of Michener's characters wander through, Texas history like threads around the core of a baseball...
...best plays of Eugene O'Neill and John Osborne, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter, wherever anger scalds and language blisters, the ghost of this strange, contradictory figure hovers in the wings. The demons he unleashed from his bedroom still wander through films and fiction today. As a young man, Strindberg wrote his manifesto: "No spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits." Here stands the classic confession of the artist as terrorist--not a nice man, but very much our contemporary...
...already against Harvard rules to cheat; students know from the day they enroll here that they have signed a tacit contract not to break the rules. An honor code is not necessary to remind students that they're not supposed to let their eyes wander onto their neighbors' bluebooks...
...community groups to crack down. Even though, of course, about 98 percent of Harvard students don't drive at Harvard--only 97 students registered cars last year, according to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Even though, by making the campus restrictive, students will be encouraged to wander elsewhere in search of alcohol and perhaps get into more trouble...