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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lang's life that runs through about a third of the book. It's a suspicious way to begin, as though you are more apt to develop an interest in Lang's writing if you've been enticed by her experiences. There is something intriguing about a person whose earliest love affair might have started with seduction by a Red Sox player in the front seat of a red convertible that his fans gave him--especially when she won't verify the rumor but doesn't seem perturbed by it. But this is a distracting introduction to her poems...
...selected yellow bands because Susan B. Anthony, one of the earliest proponents of women's suffrage, wore yellow hair-bands, Lackaff said...
...true that from the beginning colonial leaders had hoped that settlers would be both virtuous and religious. Earliest migrants to Virginia may have had commerce chiefly in mind-one cleric called them "miserable covetous men"-but they also tried to "serve and fear God, the Giver of all goodness." New England's mentors wanted to fill the northern colonies with "visible saints." In the middle colonies the founders of Pennsylvania called theirs a "holy experiment...
Kupka was one. Among the earliest paintings in this show is a dark still life, done around 1906, of a red cabbage plucked from the garden at Puteaux -leaf after exuberant leaf, dappled and veined, spiraling inward toward its round core. This system of forms crops up in painting after painting from Kupka's maturity, like the large and magisterial Around a Point, 1925 (see color page). It carried for him a weight of symbolic associations that had to do with growth, movement and cosmic energy...
...this is evidence of the earliest and most sketchy sort, but a pattern seems to emerge: Rosovsky's committees will endeavor to remake the strictures on undergraduates in a modern mode, and to see to it that the new strictures are spread, at least in spirit, as broadly as possible across the land. What those strictures will be is far harder to judge--stricter grading policies, perhaps, and more requirements. Maybe the requirements will directly reflect modern society--more science, more economics, more on the third world--or perhaps they will stress basic writing and analytic skills. They are likely...