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...Lowell--has coherently reconstructed in his book, American Aristocracy, a history of the influence the members of the Lowell family exerted on both American life and on each other. His three literary biographies fit neatly together. Singly, each subject provides ample material for an entire book; together, the biographies meld into a literary genaeology, examining the effect that great sums of inherited money and 13 generations of a traceable breeding can bring to bear on an artist...
...I.C.A. the results of this deliberation are striking. The two-dimensional floor pieces upstairs succeed in breaking down the separation of art vs. walls-and-floors conspicuous in museum displays. Here the geometric patterns of metal plates meld with the room. Particularly dramatic is "Twelfth Copper Corner," a triangle of 78 copper plates extending from the corner opposite the staircase...
Ricardo Guthrie '80, a concentrator in Afro-American Studies, said yesterday he believes the concentration "is not a traditional discipline but a meld of theory and practice, where students learn the practical problems and issues of the outside world...
This centerfold prose disfigures the novel and makes a few paragraphs indistinguishable from Harold Robbins at the gallop: "When she arrived, the flare of her seductive allure would be in full glow, the meld of her sexuality fired by the challenge of another woman." Fortunately, Kosinski's kinks are a minor portion of Passion Play. The reader who can get past horse-and-lady scenes that bear no relation to International Velvet will be rewarded with passages of great force...
...qualities: a huge supply of personal grit; the nerve to innovate, to take up causes even though the political deck seems stacked against him. He has a special kind of resilience, and a blend of stubbornness and flexibility. He must still prove that he has enough leadership talent to meld these qualities effectively and to persuade the nation that he can perform the missions he defines...