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...rhythm of Commencement in the spring of 1970 was broken by the appearance of a group of community activists seeking to disrupt the normally staid proceedings, to draw attention to Harvard's expansion in the Riverside area of Cambridge. Led by Saundra Graham--later elected a city councilor--the "counter-commencement" group was allowed to speak its piece after last minute behind-the-scene bargaining...
...Demoiselles lay. Though he plundered African motifs such as masks and Bakota funerary figures for Les Demoiselles and its sequels, Picasso neither knew nor cared about their tribal meanings or uses. To him, they were merely shapes, conceptually opaque, with perhaps a secondary use as emblems of "savagery" to disrupt the field of "culture." The idea that Picasso had some sympathetic interest in African art as such is a complete illusion. All that counted for him was its ability to furnish alienated examples of form that clearly owed nothing to Raphael...
...week went on, the White House tried to persuade its allies that it made more sense to support the comparatively mild measure of leveling sanctions against Iran than it did to risk having the U.S. take military action that could disrupt the flow of oil to Europe and Japan. Says one Administration official: "It is not a very subtle point. They understand that the more pressure we can put on now, the less we'll have to squeeze later. And they know that we don't have much left to squeeze with...
...power tens and 20s should have a strong psychological effect, but should not disrupt the boat's rhythm, Syttone said, adding. "It's good that we got it out of our system before Yale...
...Israeli government received information that the PLO timed its Passover attack on the border kibbutz to coincide with and disrupt the ongoing peace talks between Israel and Egypt, he said...