Word: leda
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...mediums, including oil paintings, acrylics, ink drawings and film. Each of these art forms serves to convey the common themes of Escobedo’s examination of her family relationships and her exploration of death through the use of abstract shapes and symbols. The acrylic painting “Leda and the Swan,” inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem of the same title, is an intriguing conflagration of textures and shapes that arrest the eye with their unsettling imagery and piercing detail. Meanwhile, the eerie images of “Planting Railroad Spikes...
...Mass Hall have been a welcome reminder of the artistic vitality at Harvard,” says President Drew G. Faust, who initiated the creation of the Task Force in Fall 2007. Kayla A. Escobedo ’12—whose acrylic-on-masonite piece “Leda and the Swan” is an abstract, textured interpretation of William Yeats’ poem of the same name—commented on the University’s recent focus on the arts: “I think what President Faust and the College have been doing...
...think my counselor is very supportive, and some of my teachers are very supportive, and my family has been really supportive,” he says. And the LEDA program helped edit his essays and of course, told him about Early Action...
...With Zambrano came back from LEDA to California in the fall, mother and son sat down to edit essays. “We spent a week and a half trying to cut it from 1,200 words to 500,” Zambrano says...
...even talking about knowing about the EA or ED: it’s something as simple as meeting basic requirements,” says Jolene A. Lane, executive director of LEDA. “Philosophically, anyone can participate in the college process. But in reality people don’t have the information to apply. There are counselors who’ve never heard of SAT IIs. Students are eliminated from the candidate pool because of a lack of information about and emphasis on tests...