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...offense by the Notre Dame of today to sustain Catholic edifices and forms. Nor is the acceptance of this by non-Christians (indeed even non-high status Protestants like Jehovah Witnesses, Baptists, Mormons) at Harvard a denial of the value of their particularlism or ethnicity. It is merely a facet of the forever ambiguous status of people called Americans. Mormons at Harvard dealt with this status ambiguity in a good American fashion: they raised funds and built a religious edifice, on Brattle Street at that. This Americanism--one I happen to cherish--is available to all of us. Martin Kilson...
Another interesting facet of the Dartmouth team is that its members grow in size as the game wears on. Their faces contort with an incredibly grim determination, and their bodies swell to the point where they are impassible on defense, and unstoppable on offense...
...made with soft daylight and bouncelight against a white, seamless background. They are also stark because of the moment that Avedon tries to capture, as in the 1955 picture of a youthful Truman Capote. He reads the eyes of his subjects, waiting for that second when they reveal the facet of character he wants: he allows an older puffy-faced Capote to stare dully past the viewer; he confronts Igor Stravinsky eyeball to eyeball; and he has Sculptor June Leaf look through...
...current depressed economy and an approach that attempts to tap more financial resources than in the past. Instead of one major effort, there are about 20 separate drives, each one gearing its approach to a constituency that has a special interest and concern with the development of a particular facet of the University. Peterson says this "uniquely plural approach" allows the separate drives to proceed at their own paces...
...Flamingo Hotel and wonder if Greenspun is still friendly with local mobsters. "That's the goddamnedest, most fabricated lie," he says, and points as proof to his occasional diatribes against organized crime. Adds Greenspun: "When you live in this town, you're rubbing shoulders with every facet of society...