Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, girls snapped up Madeline ensembles by the handful, though Cleopatra, Xena and Jasmine costumes vied for first place as well, at least according to Jean, manager of Broadway Costumes. Phoebe Huth (age 5, daughter of John Huth, Professor of Physics) said she planned to dress up as the mermaid of Disney fame since, as she put it, "I like Awiel." Her getup: "It has spawkles all over it. It looks like it's silver in the middle and it's a dwess and it's gween on the bottom to look like a mewmaid. And I'm going...
...with Spiderman, Darth Vader, Batman and Zorro emerging as the most common trick-or-treaters. At Boston Costume, Puritan Boy outfits and Greek tunics sat untouched while a bevy of boys with tired parents weighed the dilemma of Superman versus the bleeding monster. Closer to home, Michael Zanger-Tishler (age 3 3/4, son of Abby Zanger, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures) said he was dressing up as a fireman because "that's what I am!" The delightfully precocious boy was happy to eloquently detail his outfit...
...Class of 2002, however, the administration has at last entered the Age of Enlightenment. Perhaps acknowledging that few creatures other than bats can echolocate and that the human body can absorb only limited quantities of non-water-soluble Vitamin A, Harvard is installing torchiere-style fluorescent lamps in Yard dorms so that eye-weary students will be able to see vague outlines of their furniture--and maybe even their schoolbooks...
...first artist to develop fully the landscape-as-property theme in Australia was John Glover (1767-1849), who settled in Tasmania at the ripe age of 64. He was a mediocre professional who knew, and sedulously imitated, the work of Claude Lorrain. But in Australia he did the best work of his life, celebrating the pastoral delights of land ownership and commemorating the Aborigines, whose way of life was being inexorably destroyed by white farmers like him. No painter in Australia ever committed himself as wholeheartedly to recording the life of Aborigines as, say, American artist George Catlin...
When he was just a ruddy-faced lad newly graduated from Ole Miss, Jim Barksdale applied for work as a salesman for the first monopoly of the info age, IBM. Barksdale had an in: his elder brother and mentor, Jack, was already employed by Big Blue. Alas, the advantage proved to be short-lived. "I don't know if I can have two Barksdales working for me," said the sales manager who interviewed...