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Further turns in the pathways, further convolutions of the spiral. The people around you seem diminished in stature, their skin pale, their gaze distant. You stop a moment to watch as these college students eddy around you like so many ants in a hill. You are standing in front of the cabinet for Soc Sci 15 and casually pick up a text on behavioral psychology. Graphs of response rates and reinforcements and contingencies stare out at you, but your puzzlement is allayed by the almost tangible presence of laboratory walls enveloping you. A symphonic blend of pigeon cooing fills your...
Ideal Somnambulism. At one stroke, Moreau was canonized as a patron saint of dandyism and decadence, the father of symbolist art. His canvases, exotic in their spurts and blooms of color, are populated by pale androgynous youths and languid women encased, like scarab beetles, in glittering carapaces of emerald and embroidery. Such pictures were hailed as setting the tone of an entire sensibility-the same cast of imagination that in literature ran from Flaubert's Salammbô to Swinburne and Wilde, heavy with allusions to enigmatic and castrating Fatal Women. Moreau's own work was rich in homosexual...
...Summer School Dance Center finishes its second series of performances this weekend at Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard. The show combines the talents of three excellent choreographers. Elizabeth Keen, who is noted for her inventive and dramatic touches, will present her "Pale--Cool and Warm." Martha Armstrong Gray, the Dance Center's artistic director, offers a tribal work called "Primus," which features the amazing stage design of Randall Darwell. Bill Evans will add his share with a work entitled legacy. The Dance Center is offering $2 student tickets for every performance, so if you like dance and can't afford...
...Summer School Dance Center opens its second series of performances Thursday night at Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard. The show combines the talents of three excellent choreographers. Elizabeth Keen, who is noted for her inventive and dramatic touches, will present her "Pale--Cool and Warm." Martha Armstrong Gray, the Dance Center's artistic director, offers a tribal work called "Primus," which features the amazing stage design of Randall Darwell. Bill Evans will add his share with a work entitled legacy. The Dance Center is offering $2 student tickets for every performance, so if you like dance and can't afford...
...Athenians," Byron reported. "As the ship was sighted over the horizon, the crowd roared, 'Greece's heroes! Long live democracy! Poison to the E.S.A. dogs!' When the prisoners-journalists, educators, politicians, actors-came down the cargo ramp, thousands of arms hugged them. Many of them were pale and undernourished. They were showered with flowers and smothered with kisses. The incredible demonstration went on undiminished for an hour...