Word: conveyance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movement. A grandmother of his was a Catawba Indian, and Wilkerson has grown intensely interested in this heritage and its culture. He has taken an Indian name, Ches-ne-o-na-eh, which translates as "the man who kills the wolves." Wilkerson suggests another meaning that this name could convey: "a beautiful being in a scarred world...
...cost of divestment: if Harvard cannot afford to put principle before economics, then who in this nation can? And what does that say of us? And what does Harvard really convey to its students...
...Photographer Bill Cunningham, and a long, detailed grouping of his work, including many pieces not in the exhibit. "The Genius of Charles James" tends to his more extravagant creations. It skimps on his coats, for whose easeful geometry he was particularly renowned, but it does still manage to convey not only the spirit of a great designer but a suggestion of his essence. And anyone who wants to argue that a maker of fashion can be an artist could do no better than to start here. The ground in the vicinity seems particularly firm underfoot...
KONNER'S lucid style is easy to understand even when he ranges into a discussion of nerve cell structure or hormone levels in the blood. It is refreshing to hear from a scientist who can convey so many wide-ranging concepts, and many of them are not that simple so clearly and, at times humorously. In his discussion of the roots of language, he writes. "It is possible that some selection pressure for its emergence came from sexual selection operating on the courtship behavior of males that is to put it bluntly, the male who talked the best line...
...Wave Format," the story of Sabrina and Edwin, Mason rarely says more than is necessary to convey what Hemingway called "the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion." Sabrina's enthusiasms, her fennel toothpaste and herbal deodorant, leave Edwin amazed and uneasy. Self-knowledge comes hard. He dimly recalls his knockabout past and realizes that he has not been an adventurer but "has gone through life rather blindly, without much pain or sense of loss." Only on his bus is he in complete control, jolting his handicapped audience with Jim Morrison's Light...