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You feel it particularly in Cezanne's series of landscapes of his "sacred mountain," Mont Sainte-Victoire. Now it is a mere shimmer of profile in a watercolor, whose blank paper becomes the white light of the Midi, burning through the pale flecks of color. Elsewhere, in the late oils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: MODERNISM'S PATRIARCH | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

To this end, we support the request of Thomson Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez that the Committee on Ethnic Studies (CES) be upgraded to a standing committee. Dominguez, who is chair of CES, believes this change would broaden the committee's mandate to promote ethnic studies. He also believes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ethnic Studies: No Separate Department | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

I emerged no longer diffident about lining up incorrectly with conventional career categories. By inclination I'm a writer and painter; I got into computer science because of the talmudic injunction to learn a useful trade and support your wife and family. Shoemaking was more what the rabbis had in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNABOMBER: A VICTIM REFLECTS ON THE EVIL COWARD | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

Times have changed, of course. The road to Boston is now paved. The leather shoes that McDermott wore gave way to canvas sneakers that gave way to leather shoes. The start was moved from Ashland to Hopkinton in 1924 in order to lengthen the course to the classic marathon distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOSTON MARATHON: A LONG RUNNING SHOW | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

Camaraderie is swell, but the play's the thing, and this year Humana had the goods. The big find was Naomi Wallace, a Kentucky native whose work has been produced by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company but virtually not at all in the U.S. Her luxuriously poetic One Flea Spare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: A SUNDANCE FOR THE STAGE | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

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