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...memorable for its engineering finesse, for its life and sweep, for the way in which a huge Grosvenor dwindles grandly into the distance, playing joyfully with the sight lines of Renaissance perspective. The Larry Aldrich Museum in Connecticut specially commissioned his 100-ft.-long yellow piece for its greensward, and Manhattan's Whitney proudly hangs the 23-ft.-long Tenerife in its lobby. Thanks to his training as an architect, Grosvenor's work is not only handsome but portable - indeed, some times floatable. A swooping, 40-ft.-long black T, recently seen at The Hague's Gemeentemuseum...
Then came the worst plague-a drenching thunderstorm and an on-and-off drizzle climaxed by a 17-hour deluge. Before it ended, the greensward had been churned into six inches of gumbo as thick as Delta farm land, and clouds of mosquitoes dive-bombed the dwellers. To avert dysentery and flu epidemics, the leaders evacuated 100 of the 2,400 residents, mostly toddlers, until the campsite could dry out. Still, the campaign's leaders professed themselves undiscouraged. "I was talking to the Lord," Bevel reported, "and he said he was going to let a little mud in here...
Dancing on the Greensward. When Morris died in 1896 at 62, almost his last words were: "I want to get mum-bo-jumbo out of the world." He had put a good deal into it. His vision of a materialist Utopia with an art-craft peasantry, and Morris himself dancing on the greensward, bordered on the ridiculous. The masterpiece printed by his Kelmscott Press was a massive edition of Chaucer, illustrated by himself and the painter Burne-Jones. It cost ? 20- probably the equivalent of a half-year's wages of one of the men who toiled...
...tool of the socialist apocalypse, was simply the proliferation of stultifying jobs. Yet the descendants of Morris' socialist working men have now settled for the machine-made blessings of the welfare state, stultifying or not. They would sooner be caught in drag than dancing on the greensward in homespun or chipping gargoyles on a cathedral...
...according to the little-publicized plan, by the end of the day pinwheeling troops of girls would have planted 2000 bulbs of various denominations in shrub-beds around the Quad. It was supposed to be the first major step in a long-range scheme to re-decorate the Radcliffe greensward...