Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Levine fares immeasurably better. The two small canvasses, Nude Reclining and Two Politicians, show the painter at a maximum of cogency and sensitivity. The latter canvas happily succeeds more as a painterly statement than as a social comment. Its small size preserves at once its impact and its nuance. Advocacy can be carried off to advantage in the arts, but it has a way of corrupting all but the strongest. Some of Levine's much heralded larger canvases plead excessively where their business is to resolve. In this respect, a splendid containment and innate dignity comprise one major superiority...
City and University officials were distressed over the collapse of town-gown relationships. Mayor Richard C. Lee was "too upset" to comment, and Griswold, calling the riots "boorishness," confined undergraduates to the campus until this morning...
...Masters of Houses which use the Central Kitchen were relatively uninterested. David E. Owen '27, Master of Winthrop, declared, "my indifference is almost monumental; I'll leave the eloquence to the Masters of Adams, Dunster and Quincy Houses." The only comment from John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, was I'm not interested in food...
Adam B. Ulam, associate professor of Government, did not comment on the pros and cons of the Berlin crisis, but mentioned that he expected some sort of negotiations or conference in the near future on the problem...
...comment on this year's varsity would be complete without dwelling for a sentimental while on George Harrington, the petit 5 ft., 7 in. guard whose scoring, playmaking, and seemingly charismatic presence carried the Crimson through the season's darker moments...