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...University should address the problem of alienated undergraduates who withdraw from the mainstream of Harvard academic a faculty member asserts in a recently released report describing the plight of so-called "phantom students...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said Wednesday that the "phantom phenomenon" is one aspect of a larger issue that concern the administration--the-issue of student-Faculty contact...
...strips of burlap has an impacted pictorial density. She wanted to combine Picassoan drawing, gestural and probing, with Matissean color. There are direct homages to Matisse in the show, like the lacy cut-paper silhouettes of Blue and Black, 1951-53; and the Picassoan body surfaces too, a fleshy phantom, as in Visitation, 1957-73, an allusion, it seems, to Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror...
...hours later, the Iranian air force dispatched American-made F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers to blast the ruins. The fire and the fury represented a new American tragedy-the inability of the U.S. to extricate 53 American hostages held by Iranian militants and the unstable, faction-torn government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. In a startlingly bold but tragic gamble, President Jimmy Carter had ordered a courageous, specially trained team of American military commandos to try to pluck the hostages out of the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in Tehran. The supersecret operation failed dismally. It ended in the desert staging site...
...terror which confronted Lien and her brothers was more phantom than graphic, since few people were actually executed before civilian eyes. But the three recall clearly: the sudden and permanent disappearances; people's belongings strewn along roadsides; the distinct, revolting stench of corpses which wafted into the camp from the neighboring woods; and the rumors and stories passed along by chance witnesses of the Khmer Rouge's but cheering...