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...tales blur the line between the superrealistic and the gothic. In "The Gift Horse's Mouth" by R.E. Smith, a rancher's wife has to cut off the head of a dead, possibly rabid mare that had bitten her daughter. In Ian MacMillan's "Proud Monster-Sketches," prisoners of the Nazis bury their own dead: "Returning to the edge of the pit, staggering with exhaustion and aching with hunger, Kratko barely notices that they walk on the girl's back...
...might just as well have stayed at home. Sophomore year at the Stadium, with Harvard quarterback Brian Buckley chuckling musk-melons, proved to be a joke. There were no surprises: Yale was better; Yale won. The end of the game is something of a blur, but I do remember being on the field before the game was over. My intent was to protect the goal-posts from a fate similar to that which the Eli uprights had suffered the year before. "Fight fiercely, men," I cried, and headed into the fray in the end gone...
Other painters, however, had no illusions about his merits. Mark Rothko treated him as a master-appropriately, since Rothko's glowing, blur-edged rectangles, now so prized as icons of American romanticism, were largely derived from Avery's landscapes. Avery's influence on American abstract painting in the '50s and '60s, not only as a stylist but as a moral example of commitment and aesthetic ambition, was much greater than has usually been supposed. His way of rilling a canvas with broad fields of color "tuned" by dispersed accumulations of detail (a cluster of rocks...
...among the faculty and students who were at the University during the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis recall the Soviets' singling out Harvard in official propaganda. Most recollect a campus just as confused and frightened as the rest of the country by the blur of cryptic news reports: U.S. blockade, 80 million potential American victims, rockets in Turkey, the threat to Berlin...
hill, as the wayfarer battles a curve and then a second, sharper right turn, two other obligatory props of a New England town blur past: the village store and the post office. Bryant Pond would be a dot on the map, located by reference to nearby towns with such names as Norway, Paris and Mexico, if it were not for one curious fact: this little way station happens to be the home of the last crank-telephone system in the U.S. Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling...