trükikunstnik, graafik ja luuletaja Elulugu · Josef Albers sündis 1888. aastal Põhja- Saksamaal katoliiikus perekonnas · 1905-1908 õppis algklasside õpetajaks ning hiljem töötas sellel alal · 1913-1915 valmisid esimesed natüürmordid ja linoollõikes teosed · 1918 valmis Albersi kavandatud Bottropi kiriku vitraaz "Rosa mystica ora pro nobis" · 1920 õppis kunsti- ja disainikoolis Bauhaus · 1921 valmib klaaskompositsioon "Rhenish Legend" · 1922 projekteeris ja valmistas vitraazaknaid · 1926 valmis laualamp "Saturn" · Siirdus 1933 USA-sse, kus viljeles graafikat ja klaasimaali ning kujundas esimese masstoodanguks mõeldud lamineeritud puidust tooli · 1943 alustas sarjaga "geomeetria ja värvid" · 1949 alustas tema kõige kuulsamaks kujunenud maaliseeriaga "Homage to Square" · 1963 ilmus temalt kunstiteoreetiline käsiraamat "Interaction of Color" · 1972 kujundas kaks metallist skulptuuri
HORATIO It is a nipping and an eager air. HAMLET What hour now? HORATIO I think it lacks of twelve. HAMLET No, it is struck. HORATIO Indeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the season Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk. A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within What does this mean, my lord? HAMLET The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge. HORATIO 33 Is it a custom? HAMLET Ay, marry, is't: But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance. This heavy-headed revel east and west Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations: They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase Soil our addition; and indeed it takes