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...categories Annunciation, Nativity, Adoration, Holy Family, Passion, Veneration and Coronation, based on the eight-part prayer cycle known as the Hours of the Virgin, provide a good thematic framework for arranging the paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, manuscripts and mixed-media artifacts, mostly drawn from the museum's permanent collection. Less successful is the semi-transparent veil of cloth which enshrines several sculptures and paintings in the center of the room. Creating the illusion of a chapel is an original idea, but out of context in the setting of a museum...
...Danylo had a virtually physical passion for poetry. He reacted to poetry he loved in the way a lightbulb reacts when connected to electricity. He would repeat favorite lines in that Slavic, declamatory way that makes of words a magically transporting physical experience, an illumination and a kind of intellectual drunkenness. In later life, Dan acquired a solidity of middle age, a gravitas, with even an air of the august. But I think of Dan the way he was when I first knew him at Harvard - thin, handsome, dashing in a Slavic style, with high cheekbones and curly brown hair...
...Elkies' other passion is chess, though he was never the national champion. And when asked about his status as a chess master, he remarked that "A master is about halfway between your average chess player and Kasparov. There are thousands of masters in this country alone." But he admits that he apparently has a special talent in posing and solving chess problems—he won the world championship...
...next to it. They also believe it may be in different handwriting. Guberman explains, "it seems more like the mocking work of a copycat." Kenley concurs, "this isn't our man. He wouldn't strike twice in the same place. He is a calculating perpetrator that works out of passion...
Harvard lacked that passion as Queens leapt out to a 7-4 lead. The Crimson, digging down for motivation, rallied around the leadership of Pankau to tie the score at 7 and again at 11. At that point, another Crimson player was prophetic...