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...from the early '40s have a wonderful amplitude and strictness of construction that hold their vivid colors together with a sort of consuming, sad energy. They are the blues, in paint. Everything seems right about the pattern of Sowing (circa 1940): the fierce orange and yellow stripes, the eccentric placement and displacement of shape, the not quite naive use of repetition and rhyme, even the comic-strip blue cabin and the Looney Tunes mule. And The Breakdown (circa 1940-41), showing a sharecropper's feet protruding from beneath his stalled jalopy while a huge sun sinks and his wife scrapes...
With so many applicants to choose from, many employers have become picky to a fault. "The companies that are looking for people right now want God," says Jack Curphey, president of Curphey & Malkin Associates, a Los Angeles placement firm. "They want the perfect person, someone who can bring something to the table immediately. Before, if you had a good background and a good reputation, the company would train you to sell their product. No more...
...placement of so many women on themanagement negotiation team may have been anattempt by University higher-ups to preempt unioncharges of sexism. Others said human resourcesmanagement is simply a field that women have beenparticularly attracted to recently...
...rest of the day, first-years can takemore placement tests if they so desire, and attenduninteresting panel discussions. They can also hopfrom extracurricular introductory meeting toextracurricular introductory meeting, filling upat each stop on the Smartfood and Doritos providedfor refreshment. That night, first-years get afirst look at one of Harvard's strangerphenomenons, the a capella jam. The performance'spattern goes something like this: a capella groupperforms funny skit. Audience members laugh andwish they, too, could wear tuxedos and blackcocktail dresses and be funny. A capella groupsings song with lots of ba-ba-ba sounds andharmonizing. Audience members applaud and wishthey...
...orientation week winds down, firstyears aretreated to still more placement tests andextracurricular meetings. On Friday evening,however, they gather at the Science Center for oneof Harvard's most bizarre rituals. The Crimson Keysponsors a screening of Love Story, a filmwhich takes place at the big H in the 1970s...