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February 15, 2009 - February 21, 2009 Archives

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Too sad to take in

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

"We have learned from history that enlightenment, liberation, and doom may go together. For every avenue liberation opens, two are closed. Within Mozart's cheerful daylight secularity there is always an otherworldly darkness. And the freedom he expresses is never......

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Portraits of the century; ever more dubious Dodd

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

On Feb. 27 through Aug. 23, the RISD Museum of Art presents Yousuf Karsh: Portraits of Artists and Facing Artists: Twentieth Century Portraits from the Collection, two complementary exhibitions that, the museum says, highlight portraits of artists by the......

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 Tags  Christopher Dodd   Estrellita Karsh   Henry Moore   RISD Museum   Senate Banking Commitee   Stanford Financial Group   Yousuf Karsh  

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Yale vs. Geronimo; oblivious analog addicts

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Little Harbor, at Woods Hole, by Mrs. S.I. Snow, in 1921, back when the shoe manufacturers summered there, long before the arrival of the private-equity wizards. XXX It's amazing that the very people who spend their lives watching......

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 Tags  analog TV   Geronimo   Jeremy Taylor   Phil Swann   Skull & Bones  

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Death of academic journals; Portland's quandary; Romney retrenches

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this......

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 Tags  Boston University   BU   David Filipov   Old Port   online   Portland  

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