Word: magellans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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January 21, 1970. Today I saw my first "Boats" final. Eighteen questions, choose four. If I remember correctly, question 7 asked you to spell Magellan correctly. I wondered why the class list of "Gas Stations" was identical to the eligibility list for the varsity football team. And yes, walking into Memorial Hall for Paul Freund's no longer given "Legal Process" (believe me, a gem), I looked around and actually thought I had walked into Dillon Field House by mistake. As athletes often quoted about the work load at Harvard, we like to think of ourselves as directly responsible...
...stories of his own devising, the practitioner of a craft older than Homer, as old as mankind, that has largely been lost in modern times. Whether he tells about two fatuous bears who are forever pinning medals made of leaves on each other or about the voyages of Magellan, his stories captivate young and old alike. In the past twelve months, he has told his repertoire of 40 tales to 50,000 people from Maine to California, in barn lofts, in museums and, most often, in schools. O'Callahan's base is as story-teller-in-residence...
...oceans some 4 billion years ago, it moves on through the formation and movement of the continents and proceeds to a discussion of the composition of the seas today. In the course of the trip it discusses, briefly but lucidly, explorations from the time of Columbus and Magellan to the new undersea explorations of the Piccards. It looks closely at the myriad life forms that inhabit the oceans, and the resources-oil, minerals, precious metals-that lie beneath the surface...
...work-painting, sculpture and cockeyed hybrid -has provided a winding, mythic narrative about travel and exploration, circling back on a landscape choked with color and crammed with eccentric heroes. Each new show provides a fresh chapter. Ferrer's sources are often literary: Pigafetta's chronicle of Magellan's explorations, for instance. His materials are a parade of incongruities -neon tubes and stuffed anacondas, old dinghies and melting ice, dry leaves and wild-dog skins, plastic roses, canoes made of rusty wire, maps that turn into masks, and drums, beads, burlap...
...those that do occur are spectacular. The Liberian ship Torrey Canyon spilled over 30 million gal. of oil when it went aground off England's Cornwall coast in 1967. The Metula dumped about 16 million gal. of Persian Gulf crude when it grounded in 1974 in the Strait of Magellan, polluting an area where Charles Darwin had gone ashore more than a century earlier to study animals and plants. The Jacob Maersk lost or burned some 26 million gal. when it exploded off Portugal...