Word: fresh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Evian" was painted in 1900, and its view of the waterfront could only have been from an elegant carriage on the sloping road above. The work shows an afternoon hazyhot, captured forever beneath a coat of varnish, fresh sea air sealed in with this sketch of an age one imagines in likewise indefinite terms. Binet was very fond of flowers and there are several rather innocuous but decorative paintings of poppies, roses or a flowering tree over a stream. And yet one begins to wonder about this artist while looking at "Saint Mandrier," a view of boats moored...
Paul touches on an issue that disturbs many of the committee members. According to the Overseers' official statement of purpose, the visiting committees should "bring new ideas and fresh viewpoints to the University, to prevent provincialism, inbreeding and self-satisfaction and to serve as a liaison with the disciplines as represented outside of Harvard." Members feel Harvard ignored their attempts to serve this lead. Most committee members agreed that they were censored last year. Describing their reaction to the cancellation of the 1977 meeting, visitors used such phrases as "outraged," "shellshocked," or "more than a little annoyed." Norton resigned...
...Fresh from a night of trick-or-treating, the "Ghost of Harvard Soccer Teams Past" slipped out to Tufts yesterday afternoon to pull a few tricks on the unsuspecting Crimson...
...living room: children crowd around to absorb its technicolor wisdom. In the driveway is a small car, an old Honda Super Hawk; bicycles lie on the back lawn, dogs mope around the fear porch. Raymond Moore and his wife bake some bread in the kitchen. Mrs. Moore, looking fresh, models tight blue jeans and a printed t-shirt. A girl short-cuts through the back yard filled with dogs, wearing a "Smoke Colombian" t-shirt, a headdressed chief puckering a thorough hit over her breasts...
Ferris is more interested in transforming Dylan Thomas from a literary gossip item into a case history of arrested adolescence. He has supplemented the story of the Swansea son of an overattentive mother and dissapointed schoolteacher father with some fresh evidence. A former baby sitter recalls the child Dylan as "an absolute tartar, an appalling boy." At twelve, he plagiarized a poem and had it published in the Cardiff Western Mail As a young reporter in Swansea, Thomas developed his heavy drinking habits for, Ferris suggests, "the pleasure of being rescued afterwards." He was obsessed with fears of sexual inferiority...