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...inspired doodling was morphed by the Surrealists, especially Max Ernst and Andre Masson, into what they called "automatism." His striped landscapes and magic-square paintings connect to Constructivism. His closely controlled but wandering line--"The line likes to go for a walk," he famously remarked--was an inspiration to Joan Miro. His late gestural paintings, with their thick brooding darkness and emphatic signs, such as Secret Letters, 1937, meant a great deal to American modernists like Jackson Pollock and Adolf Gottlieb. All in all, a tremendous amount of Klee's DNA was wound into the spiral of modernism, not only...
...church tribunal demanded that Joan of Arc submit to the authority of the church. She shrewdly answered that she submitted to the authority of God, since "our Lord and the church are the same." The church ought to have learned, after all these years, not to push Catholics toward the place where, in their disillusioned hearts, they will, like Joan, listen for the unmediated voice of God and decide that the church, with too many squalors and secrets, is untrustworthy and perhaps an irrelevance...
...Joan Bolker ’60 knows how to write. At least, she does now. Co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, author and practicing psychologist, Bolker spent much of her life learning how to write. Now she spreads her expertise by helping doctoral students get past hurdles in writing their dissertations. While she admits the title of her second book, Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day, may be an exaggeration, Bolker believes writing every day is essential to performance. So listen up, slackers...
...Joan Bolker: I learned to write very slowly and struggled terribly. I can still remember what it felt like to sit in the library for hours and hours and hours when what I was reading sort of passed through my eyes and not my brain. I applied for a dissertation fellowship and started having nightmares that I might actually get it, and I thought that was a sign that I should stop. I went immediately back to the Harvard Ed School where I had gotten a Masters...in teaching several years before. I began writing my thesis in January...
...some boomers who are still working, shared vacations can serve as scouting trips for a group retirement locale. Three couples in their early to mid-50s--Vicki and Steve Thomas, Mark and Joan Cooper, and Jerry and Marilyn Lawler--have a long-standing commitment to be together as they age. The six met in 1974, when they worked at Credit Union National, a trade association in Madison, Wis. For nearly 30 years, although they have been living in different states (most recently Connecticut, Maryland and Alabama), the couples--who have no children--have spent vacations and holidays together. They...