Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standing at Washington Station, on the eight-block strip from the Old South Meeting House to Michael Breen Square, you will see nothing but a jumble of neon and a jungle of blaring discotheques and smutty bookshops...
...hustling Slater caught Harvard unawares a second time. With St. Lawrence a man down. Slater stole a setup pass to the Crimson's Bob Carr at the Larrie blue line and went the length of the ice again. Diercks made what looked like a terrific sprawling block, but the puck trickled beneath his legs and into the goal...
...Leigh B. Block's collection of modern European paintings includes works by most of the major artists of the last 100 years. But it is most notable for its representation of the mature style of several artists, for its extensive sampling from the work of Cezanne, Braque, and Picasso, and for a few surprises...
...lemon painted to look flat, while on an adjacent goblet, whose three-dimensionality is complicated by its transparency, is depicted by juxtaposed planes of light and dark. Here Braque is consciously playing with the eve and its perceptions of boundary, a theme in his work well traceable through the Block holdings...
...Block collection is far too rich for only one visit. In addition to the works described, there are sensitive flower paintings by Piet Mondriaan, known for his geometrical constructions, drawings by Matisse, and a powerful portraval of Christ and the Apostles by Rouault. In short, if the collection consisted of only a small fraction of the work now on exhibit, it would still well merit a visit...