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...Today portrait sculpture is dead, and the photo opportunity reigns. But Saint-Gaudens lived in an age when sculpture was thought the supreme mode of official commemoration, and the types he created are still very much with us. Our iconic sense of Abraham Lincoln as statesman, seamed, grave and erect, was created as much by Saint-Gaudens' bronzes as by Mathew Brady's photos. Our image of the repressive, striding Puritan with Bible, cloak and conical hat owes much of its existence to the rhetoric of Saint-Gaudens' monument to Deacon Samuel Chapin in Springfield, Mass. His only nude female...
...world can throw at it, baseballs to missiles, because that is how the mind protects the body, protects itself. Understanding is protection. More: understanding is forewarning. More: understanding is life. The individual column does not count, because a column is not supposed to exist alone. A columnist looks to erect a whole assembly of columns, each single effort standing patiently at attention after it is created, until eventually a population emerges, a civilization emerges. The civilization is both an accumulation of the columnist's ideas and of his being; he is his collected works. More: he has shown that collecting...
Some of Harvard’s rowers took a break from stroking down the Charles in order to erect a nine-foot snow penis in Harvard Yard...
Another would erect a bridge on Harvard property, between the two existing bridges. It would enable cars to drive from Mill Street, between the Gore and Standish Halls of Winthrop House, to East Drive on the current HBS campus...
...another plan would erect a bridge on Harvard property between the two existing bridges. It would permit cars to drive from Mill Street, between Gore and Standish Halls of Winthrop House, to East Drive on the current HBS campus...