Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been barnstorming North America, demolishing selected college hockey teams around the country. Harvard, playing its first game of the season, was college hockey victim number nine for the Olympians, who have beaten their collegiate opponents by a collective 89-20 count. The victory was the Olympians' 16th out of 28 games on a rigorous 60-game tour, which features contests against pro, college and other Olympic teams...
Such are the tensions that animate The Color of Blood, Brian Moore's 16th novel. The setting here is the rather '60s-ish cold-war zone of Central Europe, an anonymously rainy, grainy place of black limousines and border checkpoints. But Moore's decidedly up-to-the-minute subject, invoking issues as topical as liberation theology and the Solidarity movement in Poland, is % the way in which a religious leader in a political world separates good causes from mixed motives. As Moore's protagonist, Cardinal Stephen Bem, asks an aide, "Are we filling the churches because we love God more...
...London, is the life-size kneeling figure of St. Francis in Meditation, painted at the height of Zurbaran's career, in the late 1630s. This is not the St. Francis of earlier legend, warbling to the birds of Assisi about Brother Sun and Sister Moon. Spanish Catholicism in the 16th and 17th centuries invented a new St. Francis, a death-haunted monk whose images would force the faithful to think about their own dissolution...
Just after midnight on a hot, moonlit summer Tuesday, a National Park Service crew assembled, scrub brushes in hand. Its mission: to clean a year's worth of grime off the distinctive features of the 16th U.S. President. Once a year the 19-ft.-high statue of Abraham Lincoln at the heart of the Grecian-style memorial in Washington gets a thorough rubdown with special soap and natural- bristle brushes. Though Mr. Lincoln's baths are infrequent, their cost and duration are impressive. The twelve-hour cleaning set taxpayers back some...
...year-old with noble intentions," but someone who has spent a great deal of time at PBH during the last three years working with the homeless, counselling in an afterschool program, and directing, raising funds for, and counselling in a summer camp program for kids in Dorchester. In his 16th Baccaulaureate Address last June 9th President Bok told the Class of '87, "I have watched you teaching in the basements of housing projects and have never been so proud of Harvard." (Crimson, June 10, 1987) He did not say this because PBHA programs are mismanaged, but because he had made...