Heavy sentences
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On the checkered career of H. G. Wells.
At Grandpa Twain’s knee
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On the Sage of Hannibal’s Autobiography.
Remembering James Wilson
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On our most neglected Founding Father.
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On Teddy Roosevelt’s crucial role in forming the Anglo-American alliance.
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On King Lear, The Family Shakespeare & The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
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On “Manet, Inventor of the Modern” at the Musée D’Orsay, Paris.
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On “George Inness in Italy” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
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On “Dutch Landscapes” at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London.
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On “John Storrs, Machine-age Modernist” at the Grey Art Gallery, New York.
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On “Matthew Miller: the magic black of an open barn door on a really sunny summer day, when you just cannot see into it” at Famous Accountants, Queens; “Don Voisine” at McKenzie Fine Art; “Stephen Westfall: Seraphim: Paintings and Works on Paper” at Lennon Weinberg; “Jules Olitski: Embracing Circles 1959–1964” at FreedmanArt, New York; “Jacob Collins: New Work” at Adelson Galleries; and “Exhibition of Contemporary American Realism” at the National Arts Club, New York.
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