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More than 5000 Harvard students will skip dinner one night this month in the annual Oxfam Fast for a World Harvest, according to student organizers...
...page booklet entitled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare is a primer on insurgency, a how-to book in the struggle for hearts and minds. Some of the "techniques of persuasion" are benign: helping the peasants harvest crops, learn to read, improve hygiene. Others are decidedly brutal: assassination, kidnaping, blackmail, mob violence...
...purple underlights in ploughed furrows against the sunset without thinking of the strange, dull mauve luminescence that persvades the earth in The Sower, helping suggest that this dark creature fecundating the soil under the citron disk of the declining sun is some kind of local deity, an agrestic harvest god. One apple tree will evoke the Japanese roots of Van Gogh's spike line; another will suggest how Piet Mondrian's apple trees (and with them, his early sense of grids and twinkling interstices) relate to Van Gogh; a third, resembling the veined canopy of a Tiffany lamp...
...live on in the Boston Ballet's current production of Giselle. Set in a small country village bursting with perky, good-natured peasants, we seem to have entered the realm of the idyllic, bucolic life. All is merry for a time, while the villagers laugh, socialize and celebrate the harvest. But unfortunately this story is not fated to have the traditional "and they all lived happily ever after" ending. Instead, the village is transposed into a gloomy woodland scene inhabited by ghostly, spiteful women. A nightmare replaces the fairy tale...
...trying to broaden their market to reach the estimated 130 million U.S. adults who do not drink wine. Last week the winemakers could at least take consolation from the misfortunes of one of their rivals. A plague of rain and clouds afflicted growers in France as they neared harvest time, portending an undistinguished crop...