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Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.
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The [Nobel ]prize is such an extraordinary honor. It might seem unfair, however, to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
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Born:
May 25, 1936
Died:
June 15, 2025
(aged 89)
Bio:
Thornton Willis was an American abstract painter. He contributed to the New York School of painting since the late 1960s.
Known for:
The Life of Alfred M. Landon (1936)
Newton D. Baker and His Books (1954)
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