Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even if major salvage projects could be launched immediately for all these sites, many more are in urgent need of attention. In the tomb of Seti I, dating from about 1300 B.C., paintings and reliefs are falling off the walls and ceilings. At the Greco-Roman Temple of Sobek and Horus at Kom Ombo, salt buildup has eroded reliefs and inscriptions carved into the temple's walls and pillars. Even in the Temple of Horus at Edfu (3rd century B.C. to 2nd century B.C.), one of the best-preserved temples, inscriptions are endangered by dampness...
...work "to get all that modernist dirt out of my system." But it was abstraction that underwrote the system of Benton's later figurative paintings -- an abstraction based on bulging, serpentine figures derived from Michelangelo. From him, and from mannerist sources like Luca Cambiaso's block figures and El Greco's twisty saints, Benton assembled the theory of kinetic composition that would eventually alter the walls of the Midwest. It would alter abstract painting itself, since his preoccupation with surge and flow got across to Pollock and, much etherealized, led to Pollock's invention of "all-over" abstraction...
...those 1500 are "walk-ons," accepted for their talents in non-athletic realms, but no less an integral part of the team than their recruited teammates. In addition, the extensive intramural program and outstanding sports facilities here provide ample opportunity for all students to participate in pursuit of the Greco-Roman ideal. One might justifiably state that Harvard takes more steps than any other institution in the country to see that this ideal may be achieved...
...intellectualism, says it does not engage in that sort of thing. Harvard does admit to giving preference in admissions to athletes--something people here never seem to question--not for the sake of big-time sports (or organized barbarism, as some would say), but for diversity and the Greco-Roman ideal...
...abuses at big football schools have shown, college athletics no longer expresses the search for the Greco-Roman model of the well-rounded student. Big athletics is big business, with TV contracts and hefty donations. Even at Harvard, most sports have reached the point where most students cannot participate in them. Most students at Harvard no longer seek the sound body in organized sports, but in the MAC. If varsity sports are not bringing a sound body to most undergraduates, why are they given so much importance...