“In every country whatever, he who violates a woman is a monster.” The Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser Nathaniel Willis, publisher Boston, MA: Powars and Willis, 1776 v. 30: no. 1852 (1798: Dec. 17-20) AN2 A2 I49 Miscellany —————– For The Chronicle To the virtuous Females in the United States “In every country whatever, he...
“The simplest color relationship…still requires understanding of the color characteristics…that is, hue, value, intensity and temperature, etc.” –James Trissel COLOR FOR THE LETTERPRESS James Trissel Colorado Springs: The Press at Colorado College, 1987 NE1850 T75 1987 Twenty unnumbered, unbound folded leaves issued in plastic and wooden cases. Edition of seventy-five copies,...
Michael Dirda, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and weekly book columnist for The Washington Post, will speak at the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Book Collector’s Evening, a benefit event for Special Collections. The event, which also includes a reception, silent auction, and dinner, is sponsored...
Have you ever wanted to peer through time to examine changes to a location? With GIS technology, this ability becomes a reality. In a recent map release from GIS Services entitled “History Through the Looking Glass: Thistle, Utah,” viewers have the opportunity to...
Over the past 60 years Willam Christensen’s “The Nutcracker" has established itself as one of the essential holiday traditions for many Utah families. Christensen, “Mr. C,” was the first to stage a complete American production of “The Nutcracker.” Throughout the years, “The Nutcracker” has undergone many...
“It’s warm there, you cook yourself something, drink wine and look out of the window at your friend eternity.” – Vladimir Holan, Snow Title: Snow Author: Vladimir Holan Printed: Canticle Press, with permission from Penguin Books Ltd., 1971 Edition of 100 copies Translation: Jarmila and Ian Milner, 1971 Call Number: Z232.5 C3 H65 Title:...
“The sense of comfort is the outcome of balance, while marked unbalance immediately urges a corrective. That this approximate balance is desirable may be shown by reference to our behavior, as to temperatures, quality of smoothness and roughness, degrees of light and dark, proportion of...
Congratulations to Catherine Soehner, Associate Dean for Research and User Services at the Marriott Library, for co-authoring the book Effective Difficult Conversations: A Step-by-Step Guide, published by the American Library Association (ALA). Co-authored with Ann Darling, Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Studies at the University of...
I am an African American artist. Transforming Hate is essentially an eight-year meditation on a beautiful art piece that I made from white supremacist books. As I folded origami cranes from pages of hateful texts, I set aside my feelings about what I read. Drawn...
“Those colours are simple which belong to the elements, fire, air, water and earth. For air and water are naturally white in themselves, while fire and the sun are golden. The earth is also naturally white, but seems coloured because it is dyed. This becomes...