Word: flemish
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...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) requested HUPD assistance in dealing with persons throwing bottles from the decrepit, mock-Flemish facilities of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally used to publish a so-called humor magazine...
...Franco-Flemish Polyphony
...English concentrator in Adams House and a graduate of my high school, writes in an e-mail that the Lampoon didn’t prepare him “for anything, really. Perhaps if I had a career as a guy who lounged around drunk in poorly-maintained Flemish castles.” He wrote his thesis on David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” and Pynchon’s “V”: “My thesis was: these two books are awesome and here’s why. (Basically...
...large enough to surprise. You'll want to visit the Hotel de Dieu with its stunning multicolor-tile peaked roofs. Now a museum, it is filled with nice details of its former incarnation as a medieval hospital. Housed inside is The Last Judgment, an extraordinary painting in polyptych by Flemish painter Roger van der Weyden...
DIED. ARTHUR ROBINSON, 89, cartographer whose work dramatically improved the way the world looks on maps; in Madison, Wis. Mapmakers had long struggled with the problem of representing the round Earth on a flat map. The once widely accepted version by the Flemish Gerardus Mercator, for example, distorted Greenland to appear four times its actual size. In 1963, by focusing on aesthetics--and only later incorporating a mathematical formula--he devised a projection that became the basis for world maps by Rand McNally and many federal agencies...