Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Council Treasurer Jay Kim '95 said Cabot House should not have participated in the Quad-wide formal, given its poor financial condition...
...council also approved funding for a comedy night this Friday, shuttle service to Logan Airport before winter break and a semi-formal for first-years and their prefects on Friday, December...
Mike C. Rauta '96, a member of the Cabot house committee, said since the council no longer regularly provides funding for house committees, Cabot did not receive an adequate grant to defray costs for the Quad-wide formal next week...
...overflowing vitality, constrained by form's superego, the mode -- tragic, idyllic, epic, sacred. The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, 1638, is such a painting. % Poussin based it on a classical source -- Flavius Josephus' account of the sack of Jerusalem by the Emperor Titus and his army. Its obvious formal prototype is the Roman battle sarcophagus, with figures arrayed in a frieze; its pictorial roots, expressed in the nobly articulated figures of enslaved Jews and conquering centurions, lie in Raphael. With its structure of color, bound by a repeated accent of red, with its perspective lines, its golden- section ratios...
...theater isn't realist, like Caravaggio's, but it is based on a codification of reality, a formal, elevated representation of passion and thought. In this he was absolutely French -- the contemporary of Pierre Corneille, whose tragedies revolved around ideas of free will, exemplary virtue and conflicts between desire and duty, enacted by characters from a classical past who spoke ardently and directly to a 17th century audience. Rome made Poussin; but after him, Rome could no longer condescend to Paris. By the time of his death, he had helped create an irreversible shift in the cultural balance of Europe...