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When you look at a Watteau fete champetre, an Impressionist boating party or certain Matisses, you are seeing the long-range results of Titian's and Giorgione's invention of the pastoral mode in art: the landscape of pleasure, the earthly paradise derived from Latin literature, with its shepherds, gallants and nymphs. The picture that starts this long train is Titian's Concert Champetre, circa 1509, which is one of the most hermetic and disputed images in all Western art. It gets about 27 columns of dense text in the catalog, chewing over its literary sources, the presence...
...most Eliot experience was undoubtedly my very first: attending the renowned Fete after getting into the House (and, as our t-shirt reads, you didn...
Mitchell's predecessor, Alan E. Heimert '49, who retired last year after 23 years as master, was seen as the steward who retained the traditions of Old Harvard at Eliot House. Heimert's tenure was characterized by weekly cocktail hours and particularly indulgent celebrations at the Eliot Fete. When he retired along with Senior Tutor Donald Bacon, also a longtime fixture of Eliot life, many thought an era had ended...
...Crimson as much last December. Secondly, some contend that losing house variety would be lethal to our community. After all, what would student life be like without the wild transvestism of Adams' Drag Night, the reckless carousing of Dunster's Trick or Drink or the opulence of the Eliot Fete...
When seven astronauts blasted off aboard the space shuttle Atlantis from Cape Canaveral earlier this year, they scarcely imagined that a longtime KGB spy would be among those waiting to fete their homecoming. But veteran Belgian aerospace journalist Guido Kindt was on hand in Houston, the site of the Johnson Space Center, to offer them a hero's welcome. Ostensibly there to wrap up a deal to ghostwrite the autobiography of the shuttle's Belgian crew member, Kindt apparently had other business: he was keeping an eye on the U.S. space program for his paymasters in Moscow. Once back...