Word: blading
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Even in painting, the traditional assurance was flickering out by the 1880s. One scroll by Yokoyama Taikan (1868-1958), of a cataract thundering vertically into a gorge, has a real sense of sublimity-a white blade of water dividing the black walls of rock. But in general it is clear that in the expressive Chinese phrase, the "mandate of heaven" had been withdrawn from most traditional-style Japanese painting by the turn of the century. No matter; the viewer goes to this show for its older works, and they are superb...
...ever will be, Calvino chooses his images out of an infinity of possibilities, all equally sharp, all equally life-like. And when he tells of murderers who "plunge the knife into the black veins of the neck and more clotted blood pours out the more they press the blade that slips between the tendons," it is only for the sake of allegory--vivid, but purely iconic all the same...
Last year the Crimson third varsity boat, crippled with sloppy blade work, was edged out by the UMass eight on Lake Quinsigimond, And this year the Minutemen have been touched with a little Harry Parker magic in the form of rookie coach Bill Mahoney '73, Mahoney was the captain of Parker's eight in 1973 and spent three varsity years with Parker, his mentor...
...tree. And so it probably did; for the painter, Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) was the son of a warrior family, raised in a Zen monastery and reputedly a great swordsman. There could have been very little difference between the reflexes that drove the blade and those that aimed the brush...
After the first round against Columbia, however, things did not look much brighter for Harvard's blade brandishers, as they were down, 2-7. A strong second round rectified matters as Harvard, led by a spectacular epee performance tied the score at nine...