Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PAINTING of a crucifixion Mirko uses a frigid yellow -- a moon yellow. With many black, downward curves to suggest mourners, and sharp linear arrows for Roman spears, pain and sickness hit a viewer immediately. Only then does he read the cross, the helmets or the realistic skull which Mirko makes the clue, the "bridge to reality." (Although sculpture is his main passion, Mirko does paint, draw and work in monotypes because each media has its own expressive quality. To investigate the "contemporary fourth dimension," like Picasso, Braque, and others before him, he painted musical instruments from many sides...
...frightening confrontation with irrational authority. He is the man in power, with his army of bailiffs, his pews full of friends. You are the victim, and that is all you can be in this courtroom. He will throw out your constitutional arguments, all the wonderful safeguards you read about in the New York Times. And he will do it bluntly, without care of subtlety: "Let's not descend to this low level of legal discussion. This is a very simple matter...
...hair that was set the night before (she set it the night before to look neat when she went to court). The son, the brother has been sentenced for possessing a revolver; bail is $5000. He has a record that it took the court attendant five minutes to read; it started five years ago when he was 13. And just the same, like me, like the shoplifter, like the Harvard people and the welfare mothers, the family of the boy with the revolver needs so much help. Here in Elijah Adlow's court, we are all done...
...looking for dull reading, Dean Ford's annual Faculty budget report is usually a good bet. Although the budget plays a big role in deciding such vital matters as tuition hikes and course offerings, few undergraduates ever see it. Fewer still would read it if they could see it full of mind-numbing statistics and confusing classifications, the report is rough going for students who aren't skilled in bookkeeping...
Before he began his sophomore football season, Brian was already being compared to Frank Merriwell, Yale's mythical super-athlete. Dowling shunned the role. "I had never heard of Merriwell until I got here and I still haven't read any of the books about him," Brian said. "But, from what I understand, Frank Merriwell was quite...