Word: lightness
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Skaggs had walked quite far, he realized now, in this pleasantly addled state. And that was part of the problem with his current life, he reckoned--his familiarity with almost every board and stone and step of Manhattan, his habitat by now so well known that even in a light opium haze he was able to wander for a mile, chatting silently with himself...
...crossed Worth, he watched the lamplighter gingerly poke his torch, like a wizard's wand, up inside the glass globe toward the jet of gas. The bloom of light enveloped Skaggs...
...city, it seemed. Skaggs' favorite hours in New York had always been the gradual, liminal recession of day into night, the daily autumn, with each of its slow, soft, ambiguous gradations of deepening color and shadow. But twilight had been rendered obsolete by the New York Gas Light Company. Half the city's streetlamps were...
...Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, who has served as director of the Harvard University Libraries (HUL) for the past 20 years. Over the course of his tenure, Verba has shown a remarkable commitment to keep HUL on the technological edge of library science. But in light of his upcoming retirement from the post, it is imperative that his successor continue the projects he has left unfinished and forge ahead with new initiatives that will keep Harvard’s library system at the forefront of academia well into the future. Increasing the ease of accessing Harvard?...
...reinforces and threatens Clergue’s photographs. Though the show includes works from many periods of Clergue’s acclaimed oeuvre, its emphasis is squarely on female nudes. In these photographs, Clergue plays alchemist with seemingly endless permutations of his preferred elements—flesh, water, and light. In his most impressive photographs, these three elements harmonize, none taking precedence over the others. In “Nu de la Mer” (1966), water rises tranquilly around the legs and torso of a bather and courses in at her waist, forming a delicate liquid skirt jeweled...