Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haven't even hit Ivy play and this team has already given me my yearly dosage of grey hairs."--Yale women's basketball coach Diann Nestel joked after a nerve-racking 62-55 victory over Navy...
...whole, despite the vacillation in quality of many aspects of this production, Little Shop of Horrors is a very entertaining and enjoyable experience. Actor Jon Blackstone, branching out into directing for the first time, has given us a play worth rooting...
Second, the editorial states: "And Asian Americans admitted to Harvard in 1982 and 1983 had SAT scores 50 to 100 points higher than their white counterparts." As pointed out in the January statement, the largest difference for any year was 50 points, and the typical difference in a given year in 40 points for the verbal and mathematics SATs combined. The Crimson is not alone in its error. One recent article published in a journal, The Public Interest, mistakenly reported a 112-point difference in the combined SAT verbal and mathematics scores for admitted Asian American and white students...
Artists, often quite dissimilar ones, share common sources. The themes of pastoral delight, installed in Venetian art by Giorgione (represented here with one rare, very rubbed drawing) and given monumental form by Titian, spread south and north through the influence of the Giorgionesque engravers Giulio and Domenico Campagnola. Watteau copies one Campagnola landscape; Rubens takes a motif from another, Rembrandt from a third. These hard, wiry- lined little engravings, with their slightly metallic nudes and sudden dark explosions of vegetation, are to the circulation of ideas about landscape what Marcantonio Raimondi's copies after Raphael are to the human figure...
...film's major improbability. It asks us to believe that the FBI, in those days still under J. Edgar Hoover's dictatorship, would have mounted an elaborate sting operation to bring the murderers at last to some rough justice under federal anticonspiracy statutes. That seems unlikely, especially given Hoover's hatred of Martin Luther King and his allies. Still, narrow historical criticism somehow seems irrelevant to a movie that so powerfully reanimates the past for the best of reasons: to inform the spirit of today and possibly tomorrow...