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...simple, even banal: a likeness between soap bubbles-quavering, iridescent, ephemeral-and the immutable orbits of the solar system, all things linked together by their ideal roundness. You cannot keep a soap bubble in a box, or fit the planets into one; but starting with two of the Dutch clay bubble pipes he acquired at the New York World's Fair in 1939, Cornell was able to construct an entire tone poem about effigies and similarities: an 18th century French planetary map, two wineglasses (distantly recalling Dante's crystal heaven), a cork ball, a fossil ammonite unwinding...
...railroad depot, the initial headquarters for his 1976 campaign, to greet an attentive crowd of 100 residents and 200 reporters. Suddenly, for the first time in public, he started to betray what he knew-that he was going to lose. While his aides dug their shoes into the red clay and stared at the ground, Carter gave a rambling talk for ten minutes about the accomplishments of his Administration. "I've tried to honor your commitment," he said at the end. "In the process, I've tried . . . " His voice broke, and tears welled up in his eyes. Rosalynn...
Cultural Survival organized the concert at the request of Tony Seeger '67, who teaches anthropology at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Jason W. Clay '73, director of research at Cultural Services, said yesterday...
...fall of 1825. Nominated for the presidency as the candidate of the South and West, he had tallied 99 electoral votes, more than any of his three competitors. But his failure to gain an outright majority threw the election into the House of Representatives, where Henry Clay--a distant fourth-place finisher in the initial balloting--donated his votes to John Quincy Adams, allowing the New Englander to sneak off with the keys to the White House...
...entire span of most of our conscious lives either Muhammad Ali or Cassius Clay was heavyweight champion of the world, or should have been. How abhorred in our imagination it is! None of the dogs are leashed anymore. It's almost certain that Ronald Reagan is going to be president. And it's going to be a very hard winter, very hard indeed. Ali, Ali, lama sabachthani...