Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solti today has a depth, a broader grasp and surer hand than ever. Still intense and energetic by any standards, he nonetheless is mellower, more at ease. Birgit Nilsson, the supreme Wagnerian soprano, notes: "In his early days he was so energetic, so impulsive. He built one climax on top of another. You felt like you were going to explode. Now he knows how to relax...
Although they all come from live models or immediate motifs, none of Arikha's pages look as if they began with a firm, a priori grasp of reality. A case in point is his Self-Portrait Shouting One Morning, 1969. "I was in a filthy mood," Arikha recalls. "I climbed out of bed, yelling at my wife, yelling at the shaving mirror . . ." The bleary-eyed moment of evil temper is caught with acid precision in an image as transitory as the mood itself. The quick, scrubby notations for nose and cheek bone and wiry corncob hair compose themselves around...
...good news and bad news for Harvard baseball fans. First the good news: the Crimson nine swept a doubleheader from Dartmouth Saturday 1-0 and 13-4, thereby solidifying Harvard's grasp on first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League...
...Good Grasp...
...thing that's terribly important is to have someone who is capable of getting a good grasp of a wide variety of fields," Bok said. "Henry has done research and taught on Western Europe, Russia, and the Far East. He's an historian as well as an economist, and has a grasp of several languages...