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Prospects are excellent for the Crimson sailing team today in both the Geiger Trophy Race at M.I.T. and the Raven Heptagonals at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Will Sail | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

...corner of a mirror, and sad, lost fools-testify to his view that in art "everything is done through docile submission to the 'unconscious.' " Redon found a meager market for his nightmares, eked out a living illustrating books, including Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," and peddling his prints to dealers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter of Dreams | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...JOHN E. RAVEN Managua, Nicaragua

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

From prehistoric time onward man has been fascinated by the image of birds. The owl has been interpreted as the symbol of wisdom on the one hand and of evil on the other, the raven as a sign of death and of victory. To the Egyptians the hawk represented the sun god; to early Christians the goldfinch depicted the crucifixion. Seldom has this multiform fascination been better illustrated than in the 160 paintings, bronzes, jugs, vases and primitive musical instruments on show last week at the Seattle Art Museum, a display ranging from a bird-shaped Chinese ritual vessel done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rare Bird | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...quote the Raven, "Nevermore." Only three ibi have ever been seen in New England, and this particular rara avis is now, as the Poonies say, rara than eva. He may, by the time you read this, actually have become extinct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thresky | 5/11/1956 | See Source »

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