Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Harvard takes on Dartmouth at 3 p.m. today in Hanover, N.H., it will be looking to capture its sixth straight Ivy crown. And win its 20th straight Ivy contest...
...improbable but marvelous synthesis. A kind of oversize trompe l'oeil portcullis, Zueblin House is monumental and yet entirely permeable, lucid but not glib. The clear, simple axes and pitched-roof profile are classical, and the expansive ectoskeletal shed seems snatched from some 19th century dream of the 20th. The building's priapic pivot alludes to Bohm's own pioneering work: the central spiraling stair could be an ancestor or descendant of the tower at Bensberg...
...singular draftsman. Lopez's pencil drawings, both tiny and enormous --Water Closet, 1970-73, is 8 ft. high--display a command over the medium unique in 20th century realism. Who else has achieved such finesse of tone, such a steely grasp of hallucinatory detail within the ordinary, such a disdain for visual clutter? At their best, the drawings are a mesmerizing conjunction of opposites. On one hand, the patient surface, rubbed and reworked to a silvery bloom punctuated with dark points of attention, anxiously tender and very seductive to the eye; on the other, a kind of silent rawness...
...what, specifically, the founders meant in the broad principles which they wrote into the Constitution. The founders often disagreed among themselves on key issues, and the Constitution consequently embodies numerous compromises, rather than a single original intent. And certainly Madison and company didn't have an opinion on 20th century questions...
...1920s, in response to the rising rate of Jewish matriculation (1 percent in 1881, 10 percent in 1918 and 22 percent in 1922), President A. Lawrence Lowell helped establish a new admissions system to combat the University's "Jewish problem." There were few Blacks at Harvard until the mid-20th century, only 160 before 1940. Black students were barred from the dormitories until 1923; they were segregated from whites in College residences until World War II. It seems that Harvard's much touted reputation for diversity and tolerance is a relatively recent phenomenon...