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...often accused, advocating divestment that would occur in a vacuum. Harvard's divestment would be a drop in the bucket, but no one could disagree that once you have a whole lot of drops in the bucket, it tips over. Harvard can't shirk its responsibility to play a part along with individual church groups, cities, and universities that are moving toward divestment," says Ball...
...often accused, advocating divestment that would occur in a vacuum. Intend it has to be looked at in the context of a nation wide trend, Harvard's divestment would be a drop in the bucket, but no one would disagree that once you have a whole lot of drops in the bucket, it tips over," says Ball. "Neither are we calling for a quick fix, a cure-all for Apartheid that will alone cause a transferral of South Africa overnight. What we are saying is that Harvard can't shirk its responsibilitity to play a part along with individual church...
...illicit thrill of inspecting the mechanism of illusion, of seeing what devices and abbreviations he used to make sure the figures would "read" from restricted angles 65 ft. below. One thinks of him on the ladder, carrying the scheme of exaggeration in his head like a brimful bucket. On the curved surfaces of the ceiling and spandrels, he used cartoons, full-size drawings whose outlines were transferred to the plaster. But the lunettes, or flat semicircular panels, around the top of the Sistine's windows, show no sign of these preliminaries. They were imagined on the spot, alla prima...
...Crimson outshot the Minutemen, 19-1, in the first half, but that was to prove to be only a drop in the bucket compared with the second...
...stir fan loyalties. Such disputes often begin on Blanchard's Monday wrestling television show and spill over into the arena, where more insults and slurs lead to head stompings and chair bashings. Not long ago, one of Blanchard's matches climaxed with a combatant dumping a large bucket of manure on his opponent's head...