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...Threat of Neutrality. One of the most unsettling aspects of unification is that it will take place in a world in flux. The cold war is ending, communism is evaporating, the alliances that kept Europe tense but predictable for four decades are losing their meaning. In that uncertain climate, everyone is searching for sure, new guarantees of security...
...Most people who have been junior faculty at Harvard have left. This doesn't mean that Harvard necessarily suffers...We would be concerned if we regularly promoted people from within. As people leave, people come. It's that sort of flux...
Envisioning America: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs by George Grosz and his Contemporaries, 1915-1930, on display at the Fogg now, is a relatively cohesive exhibition featuring a number of provocative pieces from this time of flux in German culture...
...only thing that remains constant about Harvard Square is that it is in a constant state of flux...
...follow Braque as he patiently constructs his first real masterpiece, Violin and Pitcher, 1910, is to watch a classical sensibility throwing itself into the flux of uncertainty and coming through intact. Chardin still lives beneath the silvery buckling planes of the pitcher, and every one of the hundreds of angles at which the shallow facets of the picture impinge on one another seems both provisional and immutable. But this -- let alone the far more abstracted paintings of late 1911, in which the thinnest of clues to the identity of objects (a pipestem, a playing card) swims in a vaporous gray...