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Radu Lupu, CBE (born November 30, 1945) is a Romanian concert pianist. He is the winner of three of the most prestigious awards in the field of classical piano, the George Enescu International Piano Competition, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and Leeds International Pianoforte Competition.
Lupu was born in a Romanian-Jewish family in Galați, Romania, the son of Meyer Lupu, an attorney, and Ana Gabor, a linguist. He began piano studies in 1951, as a six-year-old, with Lia Busuioceanu, making his public debut in 1957, at age 12, in a concert featuring his own compositions. After completing high school in Galați, and graduating from the Popular School for the Arts in Brașov, where he studied harmony and counterpoint with Victor Bickerich, Lupu continued his piano studies at the Bucharest Conservatory (1959-1961) with Florica Musicescu (who also taught Dinu Lipatti), and Cella Delavrancea, studying also composition with Dragos Alexandrescu. At the age of 16, in 1961, he was awarded a scholarship to the Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, where he studied with Galina Eguiazarova (a pupil of Alexander Goldenweiser), Heinrich Neuhaus (who also taught Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels), and Stanislav Neuhaus, graduating in 1969, at age 24.
Lupu's concert appearances and recordings for Decca, though not frequent, consisting of a limited repertoire, have been consistently acclaimed. Although trained in the Russian pianistic tradition, he is particularly noted for his interpretations of the great 19th century German and Austrian composers, especially Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from the 18th century. He is also noted for performances of works by the Czech Leoš Janáček, and the Hungarian Béla Bartók.
Lupu made his American debut in 1972 with the Cleveland Orchestra, with Daniel Barenboim conducting in New York City, and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with Carlo Maria Giulini conducting. Whilst Lupu has performed with all of the major orchestras of the world and at major music festivals, he is a somewhat reclusive figure. He has regularly refused to grant interviews to journalists for over 30 years. In one rare published interview, originally from 1991, Lupu expressed his philosophy of music-making as follows:
Everyone tells a story differently, and that story should be told compellingly and spontaneously. If it is not compelling and convincing, it is without value.
In his concert performances, Lupu does not use a piano bench, but instead an office chair. Lupu has participated in notable chamber music partnerships with, among others, the violinist Szymon Goldberg, the soprano Barbara Hendricks, and his fellow pianist, Murray Perahia.
He married in 1971 to Elizabeth Wilson (born 1947), daughter of Sir (Archibald) Duncan Wilson, diplomatist. He currently resides in Lausanne, Switzerland.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to music (Wikipedia).
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
museumPASSmusees 2024 - Mima - Multitude - Miguel
MULTITUDE, a solo exhibition by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, is about our relationship with the city, ?the greatest human invention? according to historian Ben Wilson.
Spread across the MIMA, visitors can encounter wall carvings, billboards, cityscapes, videos and installations from different time periods that offer a compelling insight into the Portuguese artist approach to the relationship between people and cities.
( Le pass musees, comment ca marche ?
1 pass pour 244 musees
Tant de choses a vivre avec le pass musees
Le pass musees est l?abonnement le plus genereux aux musees belges. Cela signifie :
*Acces a tous les musees participants de notre pays, pendant une annee entiere. Quand vous le voulez et aussi souvent que vous le souhaitez.
*Visiter les expositions temporaires gratuitement ou avec une jolie reduction.
*Beneficier d?Avantages extra comme des billets de train a moitie prix, des reductions dans les boutiques des musees et de nombreux autres cadeaux reserves exclusivement aux detenteurs de pass musees.
*Recevoir et sauvegarder les meilleurs conseils en matiere de musees : tous les quinze jours, recevez dans votre boite mail des informations sur les expositions a ne pas manquer et les plus belles decouvertes a faire dans les musees. Vous pouvez sauvegarder vos expositions preferees dans l?app pass musees en prevision de votre prochaine visite.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
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Untitled (Hunger 19), 1996, 7" x 7" x 4", tempera on ceramic bowl, private collection.
This painting is from a series of 21 paintings on the bottom surface of traditional Korean bowls - done for an exhibition I had in Seoul, Korea in 1997. Recently, as I was writing some thoughts on my work to a colleague, it occurred that I had not explained publicly my thinking about and reason for making this work. This seems pretty important given the problematic territory that this work wanders into. What follows is an excerpt from my correspondence:
Around 1995 the “special needs” school that our daughter Temma had been attending for 6 years – Lakeview Learning Center – was preparing to close. I was working at the school on a large painting (titled Big Picture) of the classroom for “severely and profoundly disabled” children that Temma was part of. While working on this large painting I was given a collection of miscellaneous photographs documenting the students in their daily life at the school. Also around this time I was offered an exhibition with a gallery in South Korea, the country where I grew up (my parents were medical missionaries). I decided to make work for this show based on the photographs that I had been given of students from Lakeview Learning Center as a way of making present a population that was largely invisible / marginalized in Korea at that time. My goal in making these paintings was to select photographs that (for me) most powerfully expressed the humanity of these children. In making the paintings my intent was to try to represent them as best as I could in accordance to how I perceived them via the photographs: that is, as completely and compellingly human. Despite my ambivalence about using other people’s photographs as sources for paintings, these photographs – apparently taken by the staff of the school - offered a kind of “objective” perspective on the children somewhat fitting for my relative distance from them personally. That said, to the extent that these children were part of a community of which my daughter was a part I felt it was appropriate to make paintings based representing them.
This latter point is important in relation to the fundamental intent of this project. While I was attempting to portray the children in all their individuality evident in the photographic sources, I was doing so with the primary goal of presenting them as a community: a community as evidently diverse and complex (in various respects) as any other.
There is a well-known (in Korea) poem by the Korean Catholic “Minjung” writer Kim Chi Ha that has an essentially Eucharistic refrain: “God is rice”. In allusion to that poem I decided to do a series of 21 paintings on Korean rice bowls (a very commonly used kind of bowl). More specifically, as an allusion to the marginalization of this population I made the paintings on the bottom / underside (typically unseen) surface of the bowls. In using the rice bowl I not only wanted to draw a connection to Kim Chi Ha’s poem, but further to the movement of Minjung Art that had grown in vitality at the ending period of Korea’s long dictatorship (the early ‘80s). The Minjung Art movement (which, especially in the person of the artist Im Ok Sang, had been very influential for me) made the empowerment of the poor and the marginalized their priority. My hope was to situate the subject of the work I was making – at that time still a largely marginalized community - in the context of the Minjung political imperative.
In this work I was attempting to represent these children as faithfully as I could. It might be helpful to unpack my thinking “representation” a bit: Painting, particularly realistic / representational painting is frequently thought of / received in relation to the convention of “mastery”. That is, when one makes a realistic painting it might be understood as an artists’ claim of mastery and, implicitly, as their claim to an authority over the subject represented. I do not have any interest in that way of approaching painting. I am interested in painting that is a kind of conversation with the material used to make it (as opposed to painting as about control or domination of the material). No less importantly, I’m interested in painting as a regarding of the subject in humility: an attempt to represent the subject as honestly, accurately and respectfully as possible. Put another way: painting for me is learning how to make this painting in relation to trying to understand and represent this subject.
Taking that word representation a bit further: it is of course a reasonable question to ask whether one has the right to represent (make or take a picture of) another person – particularly someone who is not able to give consent. And it is reasonable to question whether I – even as the parent of a member of that community and trusted by the staff of that community – have the right to represent the students. But no less important is the other side of this question: the right of each person to be represented (both literally, in the sense of being pictured, and - via metaphoric implication - politically). In the case of this particular population and the particular context in which these paintings were being shown my intention was to make and show these representational paintings of these children as a claim to their right (authority) to be represented: Particularly towards the goal of advocating the presence of members of this population as they existed in that country at that time.
Park Soo Jin's essay on this and other work included in an exhibition at Art Space Seoul in Seoul, South Korea in 1997.
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Artifacts are a making sentient of the external world. A made object is a projection of the human body. The relation between sentience and its objectifications is made compellingly visible by describing the phenomenon of projection in terms of specifiable bodily parts.
Double-double bubbles? Four eyes? Symmetry? Shapely? Rounded? Nice original design? Found this early ’40s Chevrolet hot rod compellingly appealing on several levels.
Columbus Goodguys PPG Nationals. Ohio Expo Center. Columbus, Ohio, USA. July 10, 11 and 12, 2015 • www.good-guys.com/
iPhone 4s • Photoshop Elements & Topaz Labs' Clean plug-in
53 Columbus 2015 Goodguys photos are viewable, as a group, in my Flickr Album at... www.flickr.com/photos/mathersteve/sets/72157655372999459
Author : @Kiri Karma
museumPASSmusees 2024 - Mima - Multitude - Kiri
MULTITUDE, a solo exhibition by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, is about our relationship with the city, ?the greatest human invention? according to historian Ben Wilson.
Spread across the MIMA, visitors can encounter wall carvings, billboards, cityscapes, videos and installations from different time periods that offer a compelling insight into the Portuguese artist approach to the relationship between people and cities.
( Le pass musees, comment ca marche ?
1 pass pour 244 musees
Tant de choses a vivre avec le pass musees
Le pass musees est l?abonnement le plus genereux aux musees belges. Cela signifie :
*Acces a tous les musees participants de notre pays, pendant une annee entiere. Quand vous le voulez et aussi souvent que vous le souhaitez.
*Visiter les expositions temporaires gratuitement ou avec une jolie reduction.
*Beneficier d?Avantages extra comme des billets de train a moitie prix, des reductions dans les boutiques des musees et de nombreux autres cadeaux reserves exclusivement aux detenteurs de pass musees.
*Recevoir et sauvegarder les meilleurs conseils en matiere de musees : tous les quinze jours, recevez dans votre boite mail des informations sur les expositions a ne pas manquer et les plus belles decouvertes a faire dans les musees. Vous pouvez sauvegarder vos expositions preferees dans l?app pass musees en prevision de votre prochaine visite.
Musidora
•Artist: Thomas Sully (American, Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1783-1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
•Date: 1813-35
•Medium: Oil on wood
•Dimensions: 28⅛ × 22½ in. (71.4 × 57.2 cm)
•Classification: Paintings
•Credit Line: Gift of Louis Allston Gillet, in memory of his uncles, Sully Gillet and Lorenzo M. Gillet, 1921
•Accession Number: 21.48
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 733.
Painted in Sully’s most succulent, painterly manner, “Musidora” is his only known nude. Inspired by James Thomson’s poem Summer (1727), it is at once chaste and erotic, a combination that had great appeal for contemporary Victorian audiences. Sully depicts the modest Musidora at the moment her suitor, Damon, discovers her bathing in the forest. His gentlemanly conduct so impresses her that she pledges her love for him at once. The subject was painted by many artists of the day, but Sully’s interpretation, in which the unwitting viewer plays the role of Damon, is compellingly unique.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
•Signature:
o[At Lower Left]: TS (monogram) 1835
o[On the Back]: Begun in 1815—fin[i]shed in 1835 TS [monogram]
Provenance
The artist, until 1844; Lewis Warrington Gillet, Baltimore and New York, by 1844-died 1858; his wife, Mrs. Lewis (Ann Isobella) Warrington Gillet, New York, by 1896; their grandson, Louis A. Gillet, New York, until 1921.
Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)
Essays
•Thomas Sully (1783-1872) and Queen Victoria
Timelines
•The United States and Canada, 1800-1900 A.D.
MetPublications
•American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Painters Born by 1815
•American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815
•Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
•The Power of Prints: The Legacy of William M. Ivins and A. Hyatt Mayor
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
Musidora
•Artist: Thomas Sully (American, Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1783-1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
•Date: 1813-35
•Medium: Oil on wood
•Dimensions: 28⅛ × 22½ in. (71.4 × 57.2 cm)
•Classification: Paintings
•Credit Line: Gift of Louis Allston Gillet, in memory of his uncles, Sully Gillet and Lorenzo M. Gillet, 1921
•Accession Number: 21.48
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 733.
Painted in Sully’s most succulent, painterly manner, “Musidora” is his only known nude. Inspired by James Thomson’s poem Summer (1727), it is at once chaste and erotic, a combination that had great appeal for contemporary Victorian audiences. Sully depicts the modest Musidora at the moment her suitor, Damon, discovers her bathing in the forest. His gentlemanly conduct so impresses her that she pledges her love for him at once. The subject was painted by many artists of the day, but Sully’s interpretation, in which the unwitting viewer plays the role of Damon, is compellingly unique.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
•Signature:
o[At Lower Left]: TS (monogram) 1835
o[On the Back]: Begun in 1815—fin[i]shed in 1835 TS [monogram]
Provenance
The artist, until 1844; Lewis Warrington Gillet, Baltimore and New York, by 1844-died 1858; his wife, Mrs. Lewis (Ann Isobella) Warrington Gillet, New York, by 1896; their grandson, Louis A. Gillet, New York, until 1921.
Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)
Essays
•Thomas Sully (1783-1872) and Queen Victoria
Timelines
•The United States and Canada, 1800-1900 A.D.
MetPublications
•American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Painters Born by 1815
•American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815
•Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
•The Power of Prints: The Legacy of William M. Ivins and A. Hyatt Mayor
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
Musidora
•Artist: Thomas Sully (American, Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1783-1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
•Date: 1813-35
•Medium: Oil on wood
•Dimensions: 28⅛ × 22½ in. (71.4 × 57.2 cm)
•Classification: Paintings
•Credit Line: Gift of Louis Allston Gillet, in memory of his uncles, Sully Gillet and Lorenzo M. Gillet, 1921
•Accession Number: 21.48
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 733.
Painted in Sully’s most succulent, painterly manner, “Musidora” is his only known nude. Inspired by James Thomson’s poem Summer (1727), it is at once chaste and erotic, a combination that had great appeal for contemporary Victorian audiences. Sully depicts the modest Musidora at the moment her suitor, Damon, discovers her bathing in the forest. His gentlemanly conduct so impresses her that she pledges her love for him at once. The subject was painted by many artists of the day, but Sully’s interpretation, in which the unwitting viewer plays the role of Damon, is compellingly unique.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
•Signature:
o[At Lower Left]: TS (monogram) 1835
o[On the Back]: Begun in 1815—fin[i]shed in 1835 TS [monogram]
Provenance
The artist, until 1844; Lewis Warrington Gillet, Baltimore and New York, by 1844-died 1858; his wife, Mrs. Lewis (Ann Isobella) Warrington Gillet, New York, by 1896; their grandson, Louis A. Gillet, New York, until 1921.
Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)
Essays
•Thomas Sully (1783-1872) and Queen Victoria
Timelines
•The United States and Canada, 1800-1900 A.D.
MetPublications
•American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Painters Born by 1815
•American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815
•Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
•The Power of Prints: The Legacy of William M. Ivins and A. Hyatt Mayor
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
Blessed Alain de la Roche tells us the story of the origin of the Holy Rosary : Saint Dominic, seeing that the gravity of people's sins was hindering the conversion of the Albigensians, withdrew into a forest near Toulouse, where he prayed continuously for three days and three nights. During this time he did nothing but weep and do harsh penances in order to appease the anger of God. He used his discipline so much that his body was lacerated, and finally he fell into a coma.
At this point our Lady appeared to him, accompanied by three angels, and she said, "Dear Dominic, do you know which weapon the Blessed Trinity wants to use to reform the world?"
"Oh, my Lady," answered Saint Dominic, "you know far better than I do, because next to your Son Jesus Christ you have always been the chief instrument of our salvation."
Then our Lady replied, "I want you to know that, in this kind of warfare, the principal weapon has always been the Angelic Psalter, which is the foundation-stone of the New Testament. Therefore, if you want to reach these hardened souls and win them over to God, preach my Psalter."
So he arose, comforted, and burning with zeal for the conversion of the people in that district, he made straight for the cathedral. At once unseen angels rang the bells to gather the people together, and Saint Dominic began to preach.
At the very beginning of his sermon, an appalling storm broke out, the earth shook, the sun was darkened, and there was so much thunder and lightning that all were very much afraid. Even greater was their fear when, looking at a picture of our Lady exposed in a prominent place, they saw her raise her arms to heaven three times to call down God's vengeance upon them if they failed to be converted, to amend their lives, and seek the protection of the holy Mother of God.
God wished, by means of these supernatural phenomena, to spread the new devotion of the holy Rosary and to make it more widely known.
At last, at the prayer of Saint Dominic, the storm came to an end, and he went on preaching. So fervently and compellingly did he explain the importance and value of the Rosary that almost all the people of Toulouse embraced it and renounced their false beliefs. In a very short time a great improvement was seen in the town; people began leading Christian lives and gave up their former bad habits.
In 1917, Our Lady asked the children of Fatima to say the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war. How powerful is this prayer when it is offered with the right intention and a good disposition of heart! It has defeated the Muslims at the battle of Lepanto on October 7th 1571. It can defeat many more enemies today if we say it well. Pope Leo XIII, who wrote eleven encyclical letters on the rosary, says that the three sets of mysteries, joyful, sorrowful and glorious correspond to three evils that are commonly spread among men: distaste for the sanctification of daily duty of state, aversion for suffering and oblivion of the future joy of the eternity. (Explain how the rosary can make us overcome these evils)
You see, we can conquer the world with the rosary – there is no doubt about that.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
Naval Institute Press 2001,309 pgs, index, photographs, bibliography, ISBN 1-55750-491-1, hardbound
From Product description :Foreword by Richard Holbrooke. Five American and three Vietnamese participants in the early days of U.S. involvement in southeast Asia compellingly argue that the failure of American policy in Vietnam was not inevitable. The authors point out that against the advice of experts and the proven success of counterinsurgency programs in Malaya and the Philippines, senior policy makers made the fateful decision to develop the South Vietnamese Army as a mirror image of the U.S. Army rather than as a counter-guerilla force. The authors, who were involved in all levels of the counterinsurgency campaign, also cite as key factors in American policy failure: support for the coup that overthrew President Diem in 1963, bureaucratic in-fighting, and the lack of appreciation for the complexities of revolutionary warfare and the practicalities of grass-roots programs to combat it. While this devastating portrait can do nothing to change what has already transpired, it does offer significant lessons for the future and should not be ignored.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
University of Kansas Press 1998, 495 pages, maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 0-7006-0924-5, hardbound
The signing of the Paris Agreement in 1973 ended not only America's Vietnam War but also Richard Nixon's best laid plans. After years of secret negotiations, threats of massive bombing, and secret diplomacy designed to shatter strained Communist alliances, the president had to settle for a peace that fell far short of his original aims. This is the first book to focus exclusively on Nixon's direction of the Vietnam War. Based on extensive interviews with principal players and original research in Vietnam, it goes behind the scenes in Washington and into the minds of America's leaders to provide the most complete and balanced analysis of Nixon's and Kissinger's complex and tortuous strategy and diplomacy. Jeffrey Kimball has conducted exhaustive research into recently declassified files and has reexamined Nixon's and Kissinger's postwar writings to depict a hidden reality quite different from that previously presented. His absorbing tale traces Nixon's involvement with Vietnam back to 1953 with his advocacy of interventionist policies and demonstrates how the foreign policy lessons he learned before his election served as the basis for the goals he pursued in office. He describes Nixon's struggle to appease his hawkish supporters while making good on his campaign promise to end the war and how in the face of other foreign and domestic problems, Vietnam became the major preoccupation of his presidency. Kimball explores Nixon's peculiar psychology and his curious relationship with Henry Kissinger to reveal how they influenced his pursuit of globalist goals in Vietnam. He reveals how the Nixon-Kissinger relationship worked--and how it almost fell apart. He also describes the keystone of Nixon's strategy--the "Madman Theory"--which he employed to make the Communist nations think he could be provoked into fits of irrationality that might lead him to use nuclear weapons. Compellingly written and painstakingly researched, Nixon's Vietnam War combines grand synthesis with new information and revealing insights, including the perspectives of the Vietnamese and their Chinese and Soviet allies. As more is disclosed about the war, it will serve as an indispensable resource for understanding both that tragic conflict and the troubled mind of the leader who ultimately prolonged it.
Imperium -- "When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Marcus Cicero -- an ambitious young lawyer and spellbinding orator, who at the age of twenty-seven is determined to attain "imperium" -- supreme power in the state.
Of all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. And Tiro -- the inventor of shorthand and author of numerous books, including a celebrated biography of his master (which was lost in the Dark Ages) -- was always by his side.
Compellingly written in Tiro's voice, "Imperium" is the re-creation of his vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid detail the story of Cicero's quest for glory, competing with some of the most powerful and intimidating figures of his -- or any other -- age: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and the many other powerful Romans who changed history." -- from www.goodreads.com
A little boring at times and a little too heavy on the ancient Roman legalese, but otherwise a decent read.
Imperium -- Started: June 4, 2013 Finished: June 17, 2013
25 Book Challenge 2013 Book #39
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
The Boys' Varsity Basketball Team opened their 2019 home season with a matchup versus Brewster Academy at Forslund Gymnasium on January 11, 2019. The capacity crowd at Forslund were treated to a compellingly skillful back and forth game which was eventually taken by Brewster with a 72 - 63 scoreline. Photography by Glenn Minshall.