Paul was also the master of playing down his own achievements, be it his boxing exploits, his archaeological knowledge or the fact that he became a very successful author.

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Beyond his predecessors, Hals was the first virtuoso of the visible brushstroke, but no other Old Master seems to have made art so little for his own fulfillment.

NEWYORKER: Haarlem Shuffle

" Hank Greenberg, you should know, "was not master of his own destiny, " though he would "bask in the glory of his return" to baseball as the story of his first marriage "crackled over the wires and dominated the front pages of Detroit's newspapers.

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In some places there was no material to go on at all for the last movement, and therefore for the work as a whole, Mr Payne has had to invent a conclusion, drawing on his own sense of the Elgarian idiom, formed over some 40 years' devotion to the master.

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