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...Conrad. Joseph Conrad. It's his best novel by a mile...
...it’s the first time we have beaten anyone all year, so that’s a plus,” assistant coach Paul Turner said. “And we had some good things happen on the track in terms of season bests in the mile and point production in the throws.”Harvard won two of the day’s 16 events—the wins coming at the beginning and end of the meet with a few key seconds and thirds along the way.Green and senior Sean Barrett finished...
...mention, this took place at Central Connecticut State?I offer no offense to this worthy institution, founded in 1849 under the principle of delicious four-cheese pizza, only a rebuke of my own.This relatively anonymous, state-funded university puts out the effort to inspire its fans, going the extra mile to fill its arena. I cannot say the same for Harvard.Our arena, Lavietes Pavilion, is frequently half-filled. There are many excuses thrown out to explain this situation—busy student schedules, horrible acoustics, and a team that has never won an Ivy championship.Let me offer the true reason...
...wide-ranging study of this art form. In addition to more than 550 photographs (nearly half in color), essays by art historians chart the changes in sculpture from traditional men on horseback to imposing abstractions that are set against desolate landscapes or take up acres and even miles. Examples include Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah and Christo's 24-mile-long nylon Running Fence in California. These and more familiar pieces by Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti and Alexander Calder are investigated with intellectual rigor and inviting illustrations...
...High Line is a 1.5-mile elevated railway track that served for decades as a way to bring freight into lower Manhattan. By 1980 the trains had stopped running and the tracks were sliding into decades of spectacular decay that was also a kind of blossoming. Nature re-established itself. Saplings and wind-sown grasses sprouted in rail beds where the homeless built campfires at night. Whole stretches made you think of the Appian Way after the fall of the Roman Empire, the almost phosphorescent decrepitude of a vanished civilization made even stranger by the fact that an intact, modern...