Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACCOMPANIMENT OF the sounds of a tropical forest in a bird-infested jungle and flashing projection of lighting, John Cage, when he was at Harvard last semester, presented a multi-media symphonic reading of Thoreau's Walden, with a dozen readers speaking simultaneously in irregular polyphony. With its torrential waves of sentences upon sentences, and splashing words and spilling syllables, the Cage extravaganza explored the possibilities of the human voice when reduced to a cascading unintelligibility. Cage showed the cathartic effect of flooding all the senses, and I remember myself screaming in unison at the top of my lungs toward...
...hardness, whiteness and translucency"; Leach's work opposed this taste. Its clear volumes and rigorous "drawing" are a legacy from Chinese Sung dynasty pottery. But the emblem of his style-and his favorite possession-is a Korean rice bowl, made by a 19th century village potter on an irregular wheel. "That is as it should be," he says, caressing the roughly glazed clay. "The plain and unagitated, the uncalculated, the harmless, the straightforward, the natural, the innocent, the humble, the modest: where does beauty lie if not in these qualities? More than anything else, this pot is healthy...
...Bazaine, who had in the past drawn much of their visual language from Chartres's windows and had worked in stained glass themselves. The Viacryl coating, they charged, had ruined the transmission of light through the windows, shifted the color balance and, with its plastic gloss, canceled the irregular luminosity of the hand-cast glass. "I know what I see," says Bazaine. "Those windows, they were living. I have been looking at them for the past 50 years. Now they have no heart. Once they had depth and modulation; now they are flat, and the light does not change...
While Dr. Isaac never referred to himself at our forum, CAR believes this university's highly controversial and irregular refusal to grant him tenure is a blatant example of Harvard's racism. Professor Isaac is a world-renowned scholar with excellent teaching credentials. His specialty is classical Ethiopic and the history of its literature. The dismissal of this popular teacher, and the virtual end of indigenous African language-literature teaching it represents, speaks loudly of Harvard's prejudice against the interests and cultures of black people...
Even with its numerous advantages, Nancy concedes that the night is not for everyone. Like her roommate, for instance, whom she describes as "the 7 to 11 type." Nancy said her roommate thinks she is evil and morally corrupt on account of her irregular sleep patterns. Nancy fights back. "I keep people up, I think it's good for them," she said...