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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ascend above the line of the backbone and the pose is held confidently. The culminating pose, however, the "Grand Arabesque, Third Time" (of which there are five or six variations in the exhibit) does not fare so well. The dancer has begun to lose her balance; and Degas communicates this with subtle wit by having her thrust her right arm away from the wing-spread position and lock elbow out in front--down towards the ground. Her palm has opened and is ready to break her fall. Of course, the statuettes leave unsaid that this maneuver might also break...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Where Classicism Meets the Left Armpit | 3/9/1977 | See Source »

...Prime Minister two months ago called elections for mid-March. Presumably, went the argument, shrewd Indira Gandhi would not be going to the voters unless she was certain of victory. But by last week, many observers in New Delhi were convinced that the elections Mrs. Gandhi could not lose had turned into a horse race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Uniting Against Indira | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...largest ten spring semester courses (actually 11 due to a tie) last week are ones like what makes a course like Humanities 9b, "Oral and Popular Literature," attract 667 people, twice as many as took it last year, or why did Natural Sciences 4, "Natural Selection and Behavioral Biology," lose 240 people from first semester? In short, what makes a course popular...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: The Unfathomable Mind | 3/5/1977 | See Source »

...Harvard could fall to Yale, but RPI could lose twice, thereby creating a tie and forcing the intervention of ECAC officials, who could then decide that they'd rather see liberal arts types and not engineers in the playoffs. Yeah, right, and last night's Winthrop House junior dinner was exciting...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Skating on Thin Ice | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

...thing, there should be little doubt that Harvard will not conclude its season on Saturday. It just doesn't work like that. Somebody is bound to lose, and to prove it, I'll put up a one-way ticket to Troy, N.Y. against whatever you're doing on Tuesday night. That's right, if Harvard misses the playoffs, you go to Troy and I'll, well...see you around History 1422, bloke. ECAC DIVISION I HOCKEY STANDINGS W L T 1) Clarkson 18 4 0 2) New Hampshire 21 5 0 3) Boston University 16 6 1 4) Cornell...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Skating on Thin Ice | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

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