Word: column
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marschalltuckerbund--March 19 at 7 pm in the Music Hall. (Maybe Harry had this in his column...
...feast your eyes with more substantial fare--knotty wood with the nails and lumbermarks still showing. This self-conscious structure belies the seemingly organic and hence (you might have thought) unconscious "growth" of, say, the bud-like forms at the top of La Primavera. This is a tall square column, 9-10 feet tall with cut-out semi-circles of wood interlocked in a restrained yet powerful abstraction of spring. It seems like a plant about to blossom, with tremendous energy beneath the surface of a green bud--enough to create a flower...
...contests, and as a matter of fact, only one team is scheduled to play--the Harvard fencing team, which will be dueling away at the International Fencing Association championships at Columbia University. (I wouldn't even write this except that I know how many of you rely on my column to give you that added uplift on Thursday...
Friday and Saturday night at the Boston Garden the ECAC hockey championships will be played, sans Harvard. But since this column is written weeks in advance, the teams who will be playing in the semi-final games Friday night cannot be divulged. We have narrowed it down to one of eight teams though, ranging from Clarkson in the west, to B.U. in the east, to Providence in the south, and UNH in the north...
...news column that fills the rest of the page is chaotic in contrast. Not only is it riddled with typos, but it tells a story that one wants to believe is fantasy. Catholic clerics accuse the Nicaraguan government of systematically executing civilians, raping women, torturing prisoners, bombing villages. Eighty-six civilians are reported dead, 29 of them children. The story is excessively detailed and poorly structured, as if there is no order to be made out of routine terror or "normal" repression. Graphically, page nine of last Wednesday's New York Times shocks. How can so much energy and space...