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...Morale is at a peak over here," Eliot athletic secretary Mark Davis commented last night. "We have mass participation in all sports. It's really sort of peculiar," he said...
David Diao, 28, came to New York eight years ago from Gambier, Ohio, where he had been studying philosophy at Kenyon College. In his new show at the Reese Palley Gallery, his work, which once was austere almost to the point of impalpability, has taken on a peculiar density and resonance. Thick swaths of glossy acrylic are rolled onto the canvas in 5-ft.-wide swipes, and then buried by further layers. "I wanted to get away from all those tricks and nuances," says Diao. "I like to just lay a color down and leave it." The broad squeegee marks...
...despair. His posthumous canonization was a bit of Stalinist genius, for while he was alive, Mayakovsky had consistently been at odds with the Communist part. On receiving an autographed copy of one of Mayakovsky's books, Lenin remarked, "You know, this is quite interesting literature. It's a peculiar kind of communism, it's hooligan communism...
...recourse to a separation of sound and image as stylistic device. Again and again, Macbeth is present on screen, silent and pensive, while the appropriate speech is read over the sound track. The result is the creation of a melancholy and self-conscious character, and with this one peculiar mannerism, Polanski manages to turn his Macbeth from unthinking warrior into a brooding, almost Hamlet-like figure...
Harvard today clearly has little in common with the seminary established in Cambridge in 1636; our teachers are not much concerned with pointing us along the peculiar lonely path which the Puritans followed to spiritual salvation. Nor are its values those of classical education: Harvard really does not try very hard to force us to drink of the fountain of Western civilization...