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...into Radcliffe, where I had to study too hard to stay in, and even though I was class of '72 and got to partake of the thrilling occupation of Widener Library and to practice fellatio impromptu between the Conrad and Cooper stacks, I felt that the sixties had passed me by before I'd got started...
...field they did not clinch the game on the scoreboard until late in the second half Harvard had come out for the second stanza playing its best rugby of the day. After moving the ball well all half the Crimson finally narrowed the score to 15.6 when Keith Cooper scored a try in the corner with six minutes remaining...
That era, in all its extravagance and charm, makes an eye-and heart-catching comeback in two Manhattan exhibitions. The first, at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, runs through July 10; it is a handsomely displayed presentation of 213 objects from the collection of Britain's royal family and other English owners. The second, being held through May 21 by the venerable Fifth Avenue store A la Vieille Russie, is the largest collection of Fabergé ever assembled; many of the 560 pieces are being exhibited for the first time...
...nine include the richly ornamented Peter the Great Egg (1903) and the Mosaic Egg (1914) which is perhaps the most elegant of all. It is in the Cooper-Hewitt show and may be worth $1 million. Presented to his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna by Nicholas II in 1914, the 3⅝-in.-high egg is made of intertwining gold belts and platinum mesh set with diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, topaz, quartz and garnets. The surprise inside is an oval plaque of gold, pearl and enamel on which are painted the profiles of the five royal children, all of whom were...
Inevitably, a few of these more artless trinkets stray into kitsch. But for the most part, suggests A. Kenneth Snowman, jeweler by appointment to the royal family and guest curator for the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition, they should be judged by the affable spirit in which [they] were originally created-an uncomplicated desire to give pleasure, albeit within the framework of an efficiently organized business house." Another scholar, Sir Roy Strong of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, observes that Fabergé's work "was almost the last expression of court art within the European tradition, which brings with...