Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...typical abstract artist picks and chooses the elements of sight that please him, becoming more and more recondite as his career goes on. Eventually the artist reaches the point of no return: painting so stripped of concrete meaning that it becomes mere interior decorating, the fate of the Mark Rothkos and Morris Louises of the world. "It clashes with my sofa," is about as much as you can say about this sort of ultra-abstraction...
Tomorrow night, the cagers will entertain Princeton, which swept Harvard a year ago and held the Crimson to a mere 87 total points in the two meetings...
...says that I "readily admit" that the book is not for the lay public. When? Where? It's not for Cohen, that's for sure. But then he seems to have such a clear idea about what it ought to have been, maybe he's just too smart for mere reviews. He oughta write a book! Martin Linsky Lecturer in Public Policy
...October 8, the University planted a New Jersey-grown tree in Harvard Yard to commemorate the 15th year of Derek C. Bok's presidency. Pencil-thin, the young sapling had a mere seven leaves on its tender branches...
...beau ideal of a dusty country town, McKellen is all boisterous affection and puckish candor. From the moment he capers onto the stage, he seems infinitely more alive than everyone around him. No matter how thwarted or downcast, he never loses his vision of life as adventure rather than mere existence. But as his admirers gradually realize, the very boyish traits that make Platonov so appealing also render him irresponsible: unlike the safe and predictable dullards around him, he has simply never grown up. In the funniest yet most poignant scene, he feverishly debates whether to stay faithful...