Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Updike tumble out [April 26], I was instantly impressed with a feeling of Andrew Wyeth's nostalgic quality. Being a Wyeth fan, I immediately dove into your cover article and was quite pleased with myself and with Robert Vickrey on reading of John Earth's comparison of the artist Wyeth to the author Updike. I am now hurriedly on my way to our library to uncover every novel by Updike I can find...
...adjacent galleries (XIV and XV), a display of Fogg graphics and paintings by contemporaries of Degas is available for comparison and teaching purposes. (In particular, note two Degas paintings: an oil sketch, "Cotton Merchants," and a finished painting, "Mme. Oliver Vilette," which bear out the Degas-Matisse relationship...
...more interesting comparison is the two crews' relative margins over Princeton. The Quakers triumphed by three seconds. Harvard's narrow victory against the Tigers last week was inconclusive because of mishaps in the Princeton boat...
After Harvard's 22-second triumph last week over Dartmouth and Navy, Andersen has decided to stick with the new Stampfli boat for the rest of the season. Early in the week he tried to race the Stampfli against the Pocock, but the results were inconclusive. The comparison showed, at least, that the new, shorter boat was no slower than the Pocock...
...comparison of any two photographs on an absolute scale is practically impossible. Imagine, for example, an Ansel Adams photograph of the Rocky Mountains and a Life magazine shot of wounded soldiers in Vietnam. Even if someone comparing the two could decide that one better fulfills the photographer's purpose who could say which combination of subject matter and execution is ultimately more interesting...