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Behind the bland, avuncular exterior, Segovia was a man of strong feelings. The electric guitar, of course, was anathema, and he denounced rock music as a "strange, terrible and dangerous disease." He often compared the guitar to a woman and boasted of his fidelity, yet he married three times. Nor was he so self-effacing as his calm demeanor and, late in life, his sometimes indifferent performances suggested. Given the guitar's limited repertoire, Segovia felt no compunction about arranging and reworking music for other instruments. "The composer has to work through me," he said. Indefatigable, he practiced five hours...
...First Team GTE Academic All-America Mike Bergmann '88 Lacrosse All-Ivy Second Team All-N.E. Second Team David Berkoff '88 Swimming All-Ivy First team All-America First Team Joe Bernheimer '90 Squash Ivy Rookie of the Year Bill Bird '88 Swimming All-Ivy Second Team Kristin Bland '88 Tennis All-Ivy First Team (doubles with R. Boss) Craig Boulris '87 Baseball All-Greater Boston League Robin Boss '87 Tennis All-Ivy First Team (singles and doubles) Allen Bourbeau '88 Hockey All-Ivy Second Team All New England All-ECAC Honorable Mention Ingrid Boyum '87 Squash...
Vanderbyl is responsible for more superb corporate logos than any other designer of his generation. Ordinarily, logos tend to epitomize the worst tendencies of modern design: distilling a complicated business into one simple symbol almost inevitably results in bland, meaningless abstraction. Vanderbyl's best occupy that ambiguous zone just this side of abstraction; although highly refined, they suggest serendipity and imperfection, the real world in other words. For a World War II shipyard turned condo development, a star of horizontal stripes is given a trompe l'oeil, waving-flag wrinkle. For a printing company, a triangle is composed of lithographic...
...surrounding medieval structures and would emerge as a distasteful visual anachronism. A close examination of your color illustrations reveals that the Sistine Chapel's uncleaned surfaces have a warmth of spirit that is absent in the cleaned areas. The vitality of the "old" Michelangelo is absent in the bland, dispirited imagery that has emerged...
...singles: Shaun Stafford, F. def. Kathy Vigna, H, 6-3, 6-3; 2nd singles: Jill Hetherington, F. def. Robin Boss, H, 6-1, 6-1; 3rd singles: Tammy Whittington, F. def. Kristin Bland, H, 6-0, 6-3; 4th singles: Denise Dayan, F. def. Cindy Austrian, H, 6-3, 7-5; 5th singles: Cristina Dragomirescu, H. def. Nicole Polasek, F. 6-3, 7-6; 6th singles: Cathy Goodrich, F. def. Kathy Mulvehal, H, 7-6, 1-6, 6-4; 1st doubles: Hetherington and Goodrich, F. def. Boss and Bland, 6-4, 6-1; 2nd doubles: Stafford and Polasek...