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...historical period are represented (i.e., Beardsley, Blake). Eugene Delacroix, 19th century French rebel of classicism did not fear losing the charm of his drawing. Reclining Tiger, and from his sketches of a spotted leopard and a listless, striped tiger, framed he fearful symmetry of a wide-eyed beast of prey, Tigre Royale. Where in pencil, the tiger's feet were merely misshaped ovals, in lithograph form, the cat's paws took on the stream-lined and savage spikes of track shoes. His feline groin is striped like a surreal clouded sky and reiterates the contours of the landscape...
Harvard's Rojas and senior Mike Koerner are the obvious bird-dog prey today, and Penn has five men, all nearly equal in ability, who will be hounding them...
...president revealed a skepticism toward quick and easy educational reform. "The world of higher education is alive with huckstered experiments of the most dubious kind--tinseled efforts to convince students, faculty, and foundation heads that the institution is alive and relevant," he said. "We must not fall prey to delusions of this sort...
Confidence operators and petty thieves traditionally prey on dormitory dwellers. The fall's bumper-crop of returning students is a god-send to rip-off artists. The situation is most dangerous in freshman dorms, where residents are apt to leave their doors open as they journey to communal bathrooms...
...glove at a roller-skating rink, and follows the glove through a fabulous series of dream vicissitudes. The artist competes for this odd love-object against a baleful, glove-napping reptile-which, in The Abduction, sprouts wings like a pterodactyl and lurches off into the night sky with its prey. Such etchings, in their impassioned and somewhat poker-faced grotesqueries, are reminiscent of Goya, who gave visual substance to those monsters that wake when reason dreams. But Goya's repertory contains no more alarming beast than this...