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Fairies, as Stella Beddoe makes clear in a beguiling catalog essay, are so much a fixture of English literature that it's no surprise they infiltrated English painting as well. In the 14th century Chaucer, via the Wife of Bath, was already pointing out that the elf queen and her company had retreated from human contact "manye hundred yeres ago," but their popular life continued to be irrepressible. Shakespeare is full of them--A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest. They pullulate as sylphs in Pope's Rape of the Lock; they appear in the verses of Drayton, Herrick, Milton...
...challenges associated with typing a regularlength essay were com pounded in the case ofsenior theses. Kemple says that as a referencelibrarian, she often saw large groups of studentspacked into one of the Hilles typing rooms, allworking together to type up a friend's thesis...
...afternoon's most poignant moment came whenRobert M. "Rusty" North '02 thanked Goldberg forher autobiography, saying that an essay he wroteon the book won him a scholarship that allowed himto attend Harvard...
Other influences besides Benton converged on him as well: the Mexican muralists of the '30s, especially Siquieros and Orozco; Picasso; Surrealism; Kandinsky; tribal art. As Varnedoe points out in his admirable catalog essay, if the notion that Pollock was some sort of cowboy isn't true, neither was he any kind of Indian. He'd seen Native American ceremonies and pictographs as a kid in Arizona, but his attachment to Indian art as a source of "primitive" authenticity came from museums and exhibitions in New York and was confirmed by other mentors he was acquiring, such as the painter John...
...commentary on the death of privacy and the growing difficulty of hiding personal peccadilloes, "Sin in the Global Village" [ESSAY, Oct. 19], Robert Wright says the prospect of constant surveillance is terrifying. Allow me the following comment: living in London, I have become exceedingly accustomed to constant surveillance, but who watches over those who watch us? PAUL VAN ZIJL London...