Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stubborn inaction, the administration has forced us to delve into our own meager resources to provide what by all measures is a necessity. Our $25,000 could have been used to do so much good on campus. Instead, it must serve as a symbolic drop in the bucket, but the University's negligence has left us no choice. We must have a student center, and if these are the sort of measures we have to take to get the University to open up its purse-strings...
...Paris life. Influenced by Moholy-Nagy and other Bauhaus aestheticians, they reveal the abstraction inherent in commonplace details. When figures are used, as in Untitled (Clochard) ,their human identity is obscured. Bodies become compositional elements, mere surfaces for the interplay of shadows. Other images, such as the stunning Untitled (Bucket), utilize light to create form. The water in the bucket has a metallic shimmer to it, suggesting a solidified surface. Wols skillfully contrasts the texture of the rags' ribbing with the placidity of the water to create an image of restive calm...
...Paris life. Influenced by Moholy-Nagy and other Bauhaus aestheticians, they reveal the abstraction inherent in commonplace details. When figures are used, as in Untitled (Clochard) their human identity is obscured. Bodies become compositional elements, mere surfaces for the interplay of shadows. Other images, such as the stunning Untitled (Bucket), utilize light to create form. The water in the bucket has a metallic shimmer to it, suggesting a solidified surface. Wols skillfully contrasts the texture of the rags' ribbing with the placidity of the water to create an image of restive calm...
Such a policy is both feasible and just. For Harvard, the additional costs of the policy would be but a drop in the vast budget bucket. More than 1,000 employees hired under subcontract currently earn barely enough to stay above the poverty line. As many of these workers must support families at home, it is ironic that their wages are significantly lower than those earned by most part-time students on the Harvard payroll...
...Mayer declined to provide the cost of the "massive" undertaking, but said it would be a "a drop in the bucket" compared to the benefits resulting from the survey...