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Something important is about to happen … as if the wonderful jenuesse (youth) of America were suddenly to retain their idealism and vitality and
Jed Perl on Barnett Newman
artists felt alienated from the political scientists and social planners who “cannot understand how anyone is able to make anything, particularly a work of
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Young artist can learn more from a bad Titian than they’ll ever learn fron a good Jeff Koons. Not that there are any good
Google early days
Brin’s advisor at Standford to Brin: “Look, if this Google thing pans out, great. If not, you can return to graduate school and finish
Google looking for investors
Over the course of the next 18 months, the young inventors gave demonstrations of Google to nearly every search company in the Valley, from