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...Artists went along for the cruise. Painting had flourished in Japan for centuries, displaying a flair for landscapes and portraiture, plus a charming disregard for perspective (until it was introduced from the West in the early 18th century). Now, though, Japan's painters began to focus instead on portraying pleasure seekers. Elaborate, gold-drenched silken screens and scrolls depicted, for the first time, ordinary Japanese amusing themselves in beauty spots like Mount Fuji or inside a stately home. The exhibition's anonymous Entertainment in a Residence (1640-50) shows people making music, drinking, dancing, playing cards and reading letters amid...
Noting the importance of local involvement, PBHA president Kristin M. Garcia ’05 said, “A lot of times people totally disregard Boston communities that also have a stake in this. It’s not just the national election that matters...
...smoothly into each other, but are not at all codependent, which enables the audience to appreciate each number individually without regard to the past or the future. An existential thread holds the show together. The title track and opening number (brilliantly executed by Cassis) expresses nature’s disregard for human travail, with lyrics like “Somebody loses and somebody wins/ And one day it’s kicks, then it’s kicks in the shins/ But the planet spins, and the world goes ‘round.” Variations on this theme...
...remind his listeners that literacy-—while increasing the potential for wisdom to be stored and passed on through generations—also produces forgetfulness. Because it is possible to read but not understand a text, Heaney claims, the mere visual perception of words can actually disregard much of the wisdom they contain...
...percent of Harvard’s endowment and a fraction of that company’s public holdings. Yet the relative amount of money does not matter in this case: Any amount of money, any fraction of a dollar that Harvard invests in a company with such a disregard for the ethical implications of its activities is too much...