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Harvard has yet to begin its regular season, but it did participate in an exhibition meet against the Korean National Team last week. The meet was very difficult for the Crimson wrestlers, because they had to wrestle international-style freestyle, and not collegiate Greco-Roman style. And many of the wrestlers had never wrestled freestyle before...
...situation was further complicated when Moscow's Pushkin Museum beat the Hermitage to the punch by setting up in February a hastier and less focused show of Impressionist paintings, together with some older ones by Goya, El Greco and others. Its director, Irina Antonova, a cultural bureaucrat in the traditional Soviet style, made no suggestion that these works were going anywhere after the show-least of all to Germany. "Soviet troops saved these artworks, while the fascists wrecked ours," she declared at a press conference. "We deserve some form of compensation...
TOLEDO. In this medieval city in central Spain 67 km south of Madrid, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, or El Greco (1541-1614), spent his later years creating a prodigious number of paintings. Nineteen of his highly expressionist works, including the dramatic landscape View of Toledo, are again on display at the recently renovated El Greco Museum. Temporarily closed for restoration is the adjoining Casa del Greco, which contains period furniture, paintings and personal belongings...
...managed to annul the immediate and visceral character of his best work. Hence the generally tedious commissioned portraits and the stilted "refinement" of his late salon pieces like Two Women, 1924. His labored attempts at old-masterly composition in the Baroque manner included a melodramatic Crucifixion modeled on El Greco and a hammy image of a heroine of World War I anti-Hun propaganda, Nurse Edith Cavell preparing to face a German firing squad. The irony was that Bellows, in trying to turn himself into a European painter -- or what he imagined a sophisticated European artist to be -- did succumb...
Good or bad? Will the Olympic slogan of "Faster, higher, stronger" metamorphose into "Dollars, hype, celebrity"? Will the remaining truly amateur events, such as archery and Greco-Roman wrestling, be marginalized even more? The challenge for the Olympic movement will be to strike a balance between the inevitable marketing excesses and that evanescent thing, the Olympic spirit...