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Having graduated Olympian Dora Gyorffy ’01, All-American Brenda Taylor ’01 and Marna Schutte ’01, few people were looking at the Crimson women as serious contenders...
...life in New York (except for a period of study in Paris) and died in 1978. There were quite a few reasons for well-thinking folk of a conventionally radical disposition not to take him seriously. One: he was a figurative painter. Two: he and his wife Dora Zaslavsky, a noted piano coach, were reasonably well off from his bread-and-butter work of portraiture (which, wisely, is not allowed to dominate this show), and they lived in a big flat overlooking Central Park, surrounded by antique furniture, bibelots and old paintings, some genuine and some not, which he liked...
...autonomous surface, something to be enjoyed in its own right. His still lifes are exquisite. He was not attracted to raw landscape--liking neither vast American space nor the feeling of bugs in his trousers--but rather to the panoply of stuffs and textures with which he and Dora lived surrounded, the Great Indoors, and the light that bathed them. Everything gets equal attention from this light, and the structure of shadows and highlights Koch could raise from it can be extraordinarily dramatic and resolved. Witness his Music, 1956-57, and what this lovely fugue of pewter-gray and dark...
Cserny also established contact with fellow Hungarian and Harvard track standout Dora Gyorffy ’01—the two-time NCAA high jump champion—when she began considering Harvard...
...Nicky Grant, will try to stay at the top of a league which has lost an unprecedented level of talent to graduation. While Harvard may have graduated the league’s two greatest athletes—sprinter and hurdler Brenda Taylor ’01 and high jumper Dora Gyorffy ’01—the team still returns strong league title contenders in the throws and jumps and expects considerable improvement in the distances and some freshman reinforcement in the sprints...