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...exhibit presents the work of naturalist-educator Albert Bussewitz, a dedicated student of the Arboretum landscape. His photographs are on loan from the Masachusetts Audubon Society’s Visual Arts Center in Canton, Mass. Through May 17. Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain...
...four people across the conference table from me were doing their best to stay focused, but it was plain to see that their minds were drifting. Every moment or so they would glance at their laptops and then try (unsuccessfully) to concentrate on my words. Normally, I might take offense, but this was different. I was, by pure chance, in building 41 at Google in Mountain View, California for a meeting that had been planned more than a month ago. Who could have known that it would turn out to be the day that the company would announce its long...
...exhibit presents the work of naturalist-educator Albert Bussewitz, a dedicated student of the Arboretum landscape. His photographs are on loan from the Masachusetts Audubon Society’s Visual Arts Center in Canton, Mass. Through May 17. Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain...
...white is white, in the construction of an educational system, as in the construction of most human institutions, the painters carelessly overlapped their colors so that the borderline is grey. Suffice it to say that the only thing left for the analyst to do is to begin with the plain colors and work towards the point where they blend. The learned teacher must more and more render himself approachable as well in mind as person. The student must assimilate formal education into the unity of his existence and expect adventures there as else where. Meanwhile where the stratified process hinders...
...occasionally there are signs that Sonia may share some of the crowd's feelings. In four long, hot days of campaigning, she visibly relaxes only once?when she calls a sudden unscheduled halt in the middle of a dust-bowl plain and strides out to where she has spied a group of female nomads under a tent of sticks and black plastic. The women have only the faintest idea of who she is. Sonia cannot understand their dialect. And the photographers, trailing far behind, cannot hope to capture this briefest of off-guard moments. But away from the crowds...