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...flight A line-up has been set to include junior Dan Chung, sophomore Mitty Arnold and freshmen Tom Blake and Philip Tseng...
...wouldn't be here if I hadn't been recruited," said Holly Blake, a Cambridge resident who was phoning in Cambridge precinct results to Heutenant governor candidate Marc D. Draisen's campaign headquarters...
...shuts. But I shut it under my own volition. I'm not ready yet. It's going to take a little bit longer for me to fly. So in the end, I guess I'm learning how to lose my childhood. I have stepped over the threshold from Blake's "Innocence" to his "Songs of Experience." Just give me a little time to get comfortable, then I'll really show you what I've got to offer...
...inheritance ceaselessly modified, extended into his dealings with the larger tradition that geography prevented him from joining. He knew the Old Masters only at second hand: reproductions of Bruegel and Bosch, Rembrandt and Tintoretto in the Melbourne Public Library, and in the National Gallery of Victoria some of William Blake's original watercolor illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. All this predisposed him to narrative. Sometimes the stories in his paintings are explicit -- illustrations of the Bible, for instance, into which Boyd (like Blake) injected his own obsessions...
Almost from the start, once he had got past his adolescent prewar exercises in Impressionist landscape, Boyd let his fear and yearning run with startling freedom. "Seek those images/ That constitute the Wild": Blake's exhortation was seldom better fulfilled by a young artist than it was by Boyd. In paintings like The Gargoyles, 1944, the Melbourne beach suburb of St. Kilda, where he lived, became a theater of freaks and demonic hybrids, as real in its way as Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastic Moscow, because grounded in memory. Thus the blond cripple in The Gargoyles is a fellow artist...