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...already made a few feeble attempts in the past--either by trying to circumvent the anti-Kennedy museum task force by providing $95,000 for a feasibility study that would be more favorable to a museum, or by pushing for a Red Line extension to Brattle St. that would chalk up a transportational plus for locating the whole conglomeration across from Eliot House. But these attempts were foiled--not by shrewd Harvard watchers but by engineers and residents who saw Harvard's actions as impractical and unnecessary complication...
...golden section"-a way of dividing a line so that the smaller part is to the larger as the larger is to the whole. At first, Rockburne's Golden Section Paintings look homely: coarse cloth, stained creosote brown and traversed by lines in blue builder's chalk. But they are suffused by a remarkable tension and rigor, conferred by the intelligence with which she manipulates her schemes of proportion...
Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung put it down to geography. "Mountains tend to restrict the horizons of the mind," he once told TIME'S Robert Kroon. Others chalk it up to the insular effects of a longtime policy of political neutrality. Still others say it is simply a matter of overexposure to throngs of Fremdarbeiter (foreign workers) and businessmen pouring into the country in search of jobs and tax breaks...
...understood divorced from nature, and is it so very different from other manifestations of nature?" This, the key question of the romantic sensibility then as of ecology now, was Friedrich's obsession. He pursued it through a full gamut of subject -from beetling ice crags and the white chalk abysses of Rugen Island down to the plains, flooded in a benediction of yellow light, which were his equivalent for Paradise. "On the day he is painting air," Friedrich's wife said to a friend, "he may not be spoken...
...portent, the fallen oak may not be in the same league as the events that the Historian Livy claimed presaged disaster in ancient Rome: swamps turned the color of blood, chalk rained from the skies, a spear on a statue moved of its own accord, an ox talked and a child in the womb cried "Hurrah!" Still, several Michigan newspapers carried a photo of the splintered tree with the caption "Warning from Above...