Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those of you who prefer to swing your partners can choose between the ERA Benefit Square Dance, at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Agassiz Gym, and the New England Country Dance with Peter Guarnaccia and the Oak Leaf Country Orchestra, at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Adams House dining hall. The benefit is $5 for students, $10 otherwise; I haven't got an admission price for the Country Dance, and I'm not about to call Kriston Koths at 2 a.m. to find...
...LINED leaf of notebook paper bears an almost illegible scribbling, the kind of hurried writing you associate with a nervous undergraduate attending a review section for a long neglected course. But a closer look at the terse phrases scratched out on the page belies the first impression: the hand of a man in power has penned these notes, judging from their contents. "One in 10 chance perhaps, but save Chile!" reads the first line, setting the tenor for the next eight phrases. The author's adrenalin flowing fast now, the notes cease to even resemble coherent sentences: "not concerned risks...
...unassuming piece of paper at first glance, the 81/2" x 11" leaf is the only written record of one of the most critical sessions held in the Oval Office during the Nixon Administration. The hermit of San Clemente uttered these words on September 15, 1970, in the presence of three people who swung a lot of weight around in those days, Nixon's trusted crony and then Attorney General John Mitchell, his national security affairs adviser Henry Kissinger '50, and a comparatively unfamiliar face around the West Wing of the White House, then CIA director Richard Helms. The notes belong...
...fields on which Matisse strewed his cut-out nouns of shape-ivy leaf, diver, parakeet, dancer-work in the same way. They are not backgrounds; they are an enveloping fluid, a space that seems as active as its contents but, being "unpainted," is wholly different. Every painter since 1950 has had to reckon with the peculiar void Matisse invented with his cutouts. Not one has equaled their suppleness as décor, or their episodic grandeur as painting...
Autumn is honest, it does not pretend to be heaven. Yet almost everybody recognizes that the season's character transcends those familiar bracing days, crystal nights, bigger stars, vaulted skies, fluted twilights, harvest moons, frosted pumpkins and that riotous foliage that impels whole traffic jams of leaf freaks up into New England (even though Columnist Russell Baker has reminded them that "if you've seen 1 billion leaves, you've seen them all"). What is not widely recognized is that autumn is richly enhanced simply by what it is not. Specifically, it is not summer, winter...