Word: elysian
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Unfortunately, it seems we are nowhere near reaching the Elysian Fields of lower grades and rates of honors—something which, as we have seen, could be achieved so very easily. Perhaps the most irksome thing of all is that the Admissions Office seem to feel absolutely no shame in its reckless policies. For example, Director of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’68 frequently goes on record as saying that the he and his colleagues have admitted the best class they’ve ever seen. The fact that Fitzsimmons openly admits this shows that...
...between art and science is narrowing. Certainly, Presence: The Ephemeral in Focus, now at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, would suggest that art and science are a match made in heaven—or in this case, the Elysian Fields. British couple and collaborators Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey have perused the DaVinci-esque tradition of artist as scientist and scientist as artist. The astounding works they have created are grown out of their combined efforts as both. Their show is currently on view in the back gallery of the Gardner, just beyond the museum’s wonderful courtyard...
...conclusions may be drawn from this story, and both are correct. The fields of asphalt that ordinarily occupy the center of Paris may be called Elysian, but the name is simply a gloss, or an apology, applied to something that is nothing like Eden. Cities tend to create such places (find the tulips in New York City's Madison Square Garden) as a sort of nostalgic glance at the rural world they supplanted. If the farmers had not carted their bucolic protest to Paris on that day, the citizens there, like people in cities everywhere else, would have continued...
Within the elysian Yard, I stroll content; I think I have gotten the hang of the "enter to grow in wisdom" part. It is at night, contemplating nothing, that I find myself wondering what will happen sometime next year if I should misplace...
...much that he can wall it all away. Yet if he seems to wall us out, we'll fix him with a mortal disdain that will outlast any record he can set. Even so, Griffey and McGwire could make it to the record and beyond, to that Elysian realm where a man seems to stand for something good about the nation and the age. They could achieve that titanic Ruthian grace because of who they are, and who we are, right...