Word: milleniums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artist's reverence for the subtle peculiarities of his material is a characteristic of all the jades exhibited. The basic vocabulary of jade shapes was established very early in the Neolithic and Shang periods and for the next millenium generated a seemingly endless language of creative inspiration. The oldest jade carvings are flat, rounded pi disks ranging in size from a foot to a few inches with circular perforations, and ritual reproductions of Neolithic stone tools such as axes, chisels and knives, and of Bronze Age weapons like dagger-axes and spearheads...
Richardson initiated the Romanesque revival, drawing on the architecture of castles and fortresses from the turn of the first millenium. The arch, the doors, the turrets, apparently suggest images even to the cursory observer, narrowing the usual gap between the architect's conception and the everyday thoughts of the building's users. But Richardson's importance as an architect comes from his original manipulation of form and space, not from the round arches and towers he took from an earlier era. The scholar Henry-Russell Hitchcock termed Sever "vigorous," and "manly"--a phrase I deplore--and "rather more orderly" than...
That is not to say I believe the millenium has arrived out here "in the real world." It is to say there are many resources at Harvard students should avail themselves of. Harvard is, for most of its graduates, just the beginning. Lee A. Daniels...
HARVARD HAS been in Cambridge as long as Cambridge has existed, and the University has made plans to stay around for at least another millenium. So it is difficult to imagine Cambridge without its universities, despite occasional pleas by local residents for the professors to pack up their bags and relocate on Route...
...promoter's prerogative," William F. Murphy '75 of the Lampoon, said yesterday. "We don't give such annual awards. We'd give a "man of the Century" or "Men of the Millenium" award, but it would be to a guy like Thomas Aquinas," he said...