Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty-three years ago Maurice Wertheim '06 donated a painting of six grungy leather shoes sitting on a dirty canvas backdrop to Harvard.
BRATTAHLID, Greenland: Vikings: not just in Minnesota anymore. Travel writer W. Hodding Carter and 11 other hardy souls set off today on a 1,900 mile trip to retrace the voyage of Viking explorer Leif Ericsson from Greenland to present-day Newfoundland. Squeezed into a 54-foot wooden boat (called...
The story is the merest excuse for a rhapsody of textures: of the carpets, the wheat fields, the clouds, the streams in which the peasants dip their dyes. Color is almost a religion here. A charismatic teacher points out a classroom window to "the red of a poppy, the blue...
Even now I see myself lugging my overstuffed suitcase through South Station, wearing a canvas hat and a double-breasted brown suit (bought by mail form Montgomery Ward) and feeling fairly ridiculous. My stepfather had said everyone in Cambridge wore hats, and it may have been true when he was...
The point is that many of us have come to expect people like Fed chief Alan Greenspan, an economist, to have all the answers, when he can't, and never will. Steering the economy via short-term interest rates--the Fed's job--is art, not science. That helps explain...