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Harvard repeated last year's 9-0 shutout victory over the Navy Midshipmen yesterday at the Hemenway Gymnasium in a display of dominance worthy of national champions...
Carey Cage was a main attraction on the tours of recruited athletes, an impressive display of Harvard's devotion to its Division I athletic programs. Harvard fields 41 athletic teams and the majority of these teams, whether in or out of season, have a weekly weightlifting routine. The Cage was easily the locus of the athletic community, a place to workout in the company of other intensely training athletes...
This concern is echoed in "Detroit Queen" (1957) and the Sentinel series, both of which augment the sheer artistic power of Giacomettian sculpture with a deep concern for the role of form and color. Despite its poorly lit display area, the genius of the bronze Detroit Queen emanates from its patinate form. Composed of sheet metal, gears, and bowls, the rigid figure in the work stands precariously balanced on the flowing forms of its "throne...
Smith, of course, could not keep pure of all such influences, and his missteps are on display at the exhibit as well. While billed as "explorations of form, color, shape and mass," his paintings and small assemblages convey little original thought. "Relief with Bones" is a particular disaster-- constructed of chicken bones, a shoebox lid, and canvas, this mess of gouache and watercolor artlessly melds the elemental primitivism of Jean DuBuffet with the cool detachment of pop artists. Although occasionally suggesting the powerful brushwork of a Kline, Smith's other paintings pale in comparison with the power of his sculpture...
Judicious appropriations of other artistic styles are on display here but are always tempered by Smith's unique social background. "Doorway"'s exceptional craftsmanship and balance of elements recalls the ingenious arrangements of Alexander Calder's stabiles (grounded mobiles...