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After World War II, Horiuchi made his way to Spokane and Zen Master Takizaki, who had greatly influenced Mark Tobey. His work became an exciting blend of abstraction and traditional Japanese painting. At his best, Horiuchi manages to combine a sense of the mysterious depths of an ancient heritage (often suggested by weathered scraps decorated with archaic Japanese calligraphy) with moody, grey and color-flecked images of Pacific landscape, mists and rain. Having attained a point of equipoise between East and West, Horiuchi's goal is "to impart something of the peace and serenity of an Eastern memory into...
Benjamin W. Labaree, for two years assistant senior tutor in Leverett House, will replace Albert A. Mavrinac as Senior Tutor of Winthrop House next year, Master David E. Owen announced yesterday. Labaree, a 1950 graduate of Yale, will also be an instructor in History...
...could never wear one," said the first face, feeling its necktie, "but it might be all right on you, although a gentleman never wears brown--unless it's tweed. I hope he lets us go in together, after he's through with the House Master...
...beginning to feel out of his depth, but just then the Master came striding out of the fitting room. He was closely followed by a distinguished, but jacket-less fellow with a tape measure around his neck, and by a shorter, less distinguished man with a fitting form. The one with the form, clearly a lesser type, picked imaginary threads from the Master's suit. His more distinguished colleague handed their client a waiting umbrella and murmured that he would have the order sent on to the House...
...traditional art,* Sandy turned first to engineering, drifted from job to job, began to find his medium in 1926 with wire sculptures. He created out of wire a whole circus, complete with leaping trapeze artists, jumping kangaroos and horse-hurdling bareback riders. Their mobility, controlled by springs and a master crank, charmed a Paris Left Bank audience that included Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger and Joan Miro. The mobile was being born...