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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both places at the same moment: there was a slow shift from high religious subjects toward the themes of everyday life. As Caravaggio painted his gamblers, gypsies and tavern scenes, so dozens of Japanese artists began to set down the details of street festivals and bathhouses on the largest "official" scale known to Japanese art -the byōbu, or folding screens, closely detailed and richly ornamented with gold leaf, which decorated the houses of the rich in Kyoto and Edo. These genre pictures give the most complete visual account of everyday life in old Japan that has come down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Figures on the Wide Screen | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard Coop bills itself as the largest bookstore in Boston; whether it's true or not, you can probably find what you're looking for there, especially if you're academically inclined. A Coop charge account can ease some of your financial burden, especially with the rebate deal they throw in. And you certainly feel as though you are spending less, because the place has a definite supermarket-type atmosphere. A warning, however: it is more than easy to go hog-wild in the Coop, especially with one of those little cards in hand, so be careful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cruising the Square | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...five students, who cannot graduate until they pass another set of generals to be given next year, comprise the largest group of students flunking History general examinations in the past five years...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: Five Seniors Fail to Pass General Exams in History | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...with an air of anticipatory uncertainty that the squads prepared to meet on the historic Connecticut waters. They were greeted by the largest gathering since The Race was televised live in 1963 with a Harvard fan squarely rooted in the White House...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Heavyweights Salvage Season | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...Associated Harvard Alumni to six-year terms, are: Albert V. Casey '43, president of American Airlines; Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. '54, chairman of Back-Bay-Orient Enterprises and a prominent figure in American-Korean trade relations; Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, president of Atlantic Richfield, one of the nation's largest oil companies; Rilbert D. Storey '58, a partner in the Ohio law firm of Burke, Haber and Berick; and Frank Stanton, former president of the Columbia Broadcasting System...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Elects New Overseers | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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