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Copley never did master the grand manner as prescribed by Reynolds. His huge, ambitious history painting, Watson and the Shark, 1778, is a beloved American classic thanks to, not in spite of, its earnest potpourri of quotations from Titian, Raphael, the Borghese Gladiator and the Laocoon. But at the level of the portrait he was exact and forceful. The tight, heavy faces, didactic hands and subtly registered expressions of Copley's New Englanders read like indexes of American character, and his painting of Thomas and Sarah Mifflin (1773) is one of the great 18th century images of the enlightened...
Students at the Ed School have been drawn into the school's new interaction with schools and teaching. the school has encouraged its students to attend a series oaf special colloquia where various educators who wrote some of the recent potpourri of reports will come to discuss their feelings towards school systems. The panels have been organized so that selected students, Ed School officials, and outside educators are able to question the speaker and to challenge his arguments. The school has extended this participation to serve an advisory role to Massachusetts schools. Last summer, governor Michael s. Dukakis asked...
...most exhilirating cultural and commercial centers in the country. The University (at once sagely academic and youthful), the affluent neighborhood to the west down Brattle St. and the less affluent, heavily ethnic neighborhoods at the northern and eastern ends of Mass. Ave, all combine into a cultural potpourri. This hybrid probably boasts the nation's highest concentration and variety of both ice cream and bookstores (including the oldest foreign language bookstore in the United States.) Harvard Square, as much as Harvard itself, draws tourists, soul-searchers, and cosmopolitans to mid-Cambridge--or at least keeps them here after they earn...
...movie series this summer. Playing through July is a "hunk" extravaganza with a different double feature every other night of favorite leading men such as Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Errol Flynn. In August, on a more serious note, will be an Ingmar Bergman series with the director's potpourri of films, including the Magic Flute and Persona. For a consistent series of famous golden oldies, the Brattle Theater will provide enjoyable film entertainment for the entire summer...
...Tasty: Open all night, The Tasty is squeezed at the end of Kennedy St. next to Out of Town News. But don't miss it if you want to observe the late-night clubhouse of a colorful potpourri of Cambridge Police on break, itinerant wanderers who stare blindly at the ceiling, and skinheads finished with an evening of singing and dancing on top of the T subway station. The centerpiece of this midnight to down circus is the one and only Cosmo who is delightful ringmaster. Go in and visit Cosmo, say hi and order the Veri-tastee frankfurter...