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...later piece, "Light, Dry Poem" (1938), exemplifies Klee's experiments with color and texture. On burlap, black lines surround pastel shapes. The place seems to be Klee's expression of his belief that "art does not render the visible; rather it makes visible...
...rain against our umbrellas to hear the house master give the dedication. She tried to speak loudly, but the rain drowned her voice out, and she decided to move the ceremony indoors. Inside, Becky's roommates and parents spoke a few words about her. Her roommates recited a poem that reminded them of Becky. Amid tears, her mother described how she had mentally walked the halls of Winthrop and the streets of Harvard Square a million times, always with Becky...
...ceremony members of the team read my favorite poem, No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Bronte. The last stanza holds, for me, all the strong feelings I have for Becky...
Later, Angela Alioto, president of the city board of supervisors, announced plans to change the law so that coffeehouses featuring nonprofessional poets wouldn't need an entertainment permit. And she invited local poets Alan Kaufman and Neeli Cherkovski to hold a reading at city hall. Cherkovski already has a poem he can use. "Taxing poetry," it reads, "is like making clouds pay for passing...
...didn't matter who danced with who..." Jones stated over and over and over again in an autobiographical poem that prefaced the program. His statement was tongue-in-check, referring to those societal restrictions that determine what partnering is "acceptable." But Jones and his dancers proceeded to disregard any such limitations. Their form of dance overcomes barriers of sociology and physiology, ignoring predefined gender roles and focusing wholly on the integrity of the movement. The company most effectively demonstrated this ideal in their performance of the first movement of "Soon," a duet created by Jones. The movement was performed three...