Word: dove
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...Harvard men's swimming team (4-0, 2-0 Ivy) dove back into the league schedule last weekend with a convincing 163.5-78.5 victory over Brown (3-4, 1-1), but as the Crimson was doubling up the Bears it was also preparing for its biggest dual meet of the regular season. Both Yale and Princeton will take on Harvard at Blodgett Pool tomorrow and Saturday nights...
Nonetheless, the musical succesfully creates an overall atmosphere of wholesome fun. Sure, Noah's dove is obviously attached to a string, but this is all part of the musical mocking its own attempted seriousness. Musical numbers about the expulsion from Eden and time on the ark are bound at the very least to promote a bemused audience, and the cast does an admirable job with a show that lacks a cohesive theatrical intent. And so a trip to the Loeb Ex for a brush with the biblical is highly recommended. It should at least serve as a more entertaining form...
Freshman Lovisa Gustafsson basked in the spotlight once more this year, clocking her 200 butterfly at 2:06.49 for a win, just before she dove into the pool to capture victory in the 500 freestyle with...
...specter of provincialism, would have made. He began with those two heroes of realism, Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer. But Phillips' taste was more for the visionary, especially for the dark, light-mottled sea pieces of Albert Pinkham Ryder, and for the younger painters they inspired--Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin and others. He was convinced that the defining characteristics of American art were more spiritual than stylistic and that they had been laid down in the 19th century...
...this he was right, and he was right too in his belief that if you scratched any American abstraction, you would find a landscape not far below the surface. This was part of the deep sympathy that ran between Phillips and Dove: a belief that "abstraction" was not autonomous, that it was a way of getting to the core of reality by jettisoning whatever might be incidental. Then, Phillips wrote, "abstract art ceases to be an amusement for the aesthete and becomes a divine activity." Phillips couldn't be Ryder's patron: the man was dead. But he was Dove...