Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshman rebounded to reach the finals of the second-round consolation tourney. Clark whipped her Wellesley opponent in three games, followed bya 3-2 victory over Morris and a three-game sweepover Emily Foster...
...Greeks held so firmly to their past that we forget how far back they had to reach for it. It is easy to lose sight of the long centuries -- there were eight of them -- that separate the heroes of the Trojan War from the age of Socrates and Aeschylus, which paid homage to them. Much of what lay between was not an unbroken line of glory but a dim interregnum. The Mycenaean Greece that leveled Troy around 1200 B.C. was itself in ruins a hundred years later, smashed by Dorian invaders from the north. There followed a dark age that...
...that, a visitor might at first be disappointed that the show's chronological reach ends in the early 5th century, just as sculpted form is approaching the perfected classical style. Several works, however, look ahead to that style and even beyond it: the overlapping figures of the hero Theseus carrying off the Amazon queen Antiope, in a broken 5th century sculpture, lay the seed for the upwardly spiraling corkscrews of the baroque...
...figure as the earthly signifier of the divine. Advancing rapidly in style from decade to decade, the kouroi appear to be the first examples of art for art's sake, their function as temple statues and grave markers taking second place to the opportunity they offered the sculptor to reach ever closer to ideal form...
Dean of Faculty A. Michael Spence issued areport two years ago that may have significantimpact on the numbers of women who reach thesenior ranks. The Spence plan aims to ensure thatHarvard's junior faculty have a greater chance ofbeing promoted from within the ranks. And sincethe percentage of women faculty at the juniorlevel is higher, proponents of the plan say thatits implementation will have the correspondingresult of increasing female representation at thesenior level...