Word: penns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Penn De-Emphasis...
...February, 1952, the schools moved to tighten the League by calling for each school to play every other at least once every five years. Since then, there has been constant pressure for a stronger Ivy League. Now that Penn has renounced its big time schedule, the eight schools have been able to work together on the stronger scheduling proposal...
...first fame as "pictorial" artists. Alfred Eisenstaedt-the master of the sharp, meaningful portrait and the photographer who stirred U.S. enthusiasm for the Leica and other 35-mm. cameras-contributed an early picture of a ballet rehearsal that owes its mothlike softness and radiance to Degas' influence. Irving Penn's evocation of a midsummer nap harks back to a 15th century Venetian, Carlo Crivelli, who also used sharply focused flies to achieve a greater illusion of depth...
...printed page is perhaps where photography is truly at home. It seems too restless for museum walls. Says Old Pro Irving Penn: "The photographer belongs to the age of the subway, high-speed cars and tall buildings. His picture is made to be seen amid the haste of contemporary life. Some real folk art appears in journalism or in advertising. A picture that sells a cake of soap...
...When Penn bucked the association on the television issue three years ago, NCAA pressure quickly forced the Quakers to back down. Several Ivy League schools even threatened to drop Penn from their football schedules unless it bowed to the NCAA...