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Undeterred by traffic, his partner's injury and a pair of high-friction tries, 71-year-old Dale O. Hiestand biked 1,830 miles over 34 days from his home in Cooper City, Fla. to a 50th reunion in Cambridge...
...climactic paintings of the early '60s, like Monastery, 1961, and Monsoon, 1961-62, abstractness prevails more, but there are still traces of figures within the cells of Monastery; a kind of prayer hum seems to emanate from its gray congested surface, suggesting collectivity through the soft friction of forms. Monsoon encases a memory of the nightmare raft trip, with a disjointed white calligraphy playing, slower than lightning, over the darkness behind it. Its movements seem just on the point of incoherence, as though an already indeterminate Cubist space had been subject to unbearable stress. But it doesn't fall apart...
...Bass-funded program. The problem was that "the money was being given to support Kagan," says Holquist. "In the academy, it's always a clash of egos." Even those in Kagan's camp agree that a personal power struggle, rather than multicultural objections, was the source of friction...
...still uses them? They can't write in blue, or black. They can't look decisive or bold. They remind us of high school math class. Ahh, but here's the one, obvious beauty of a pencil: graphite disappears with a little help from that wonder of physics, friction. Pencils at Harvard are reserved for either those who aren't vain enough to care about permanence or for taking exams, where we would rather not have our confused hieroglyphics remembered. Pencil use has its hierarchy, though: note the dichotomy between integral-calculators, who use mechanical pencils, and the doodler...
...types of debate were offered at the tournament. Policy debaters were the ones with bad posture, developed from lugging around gigantic crates of documents. They spoke so rapidly their tongues and lips suffered friction burns...