Word: rodin
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Concluding a seven-month search process, the University of Pennsylvania yesterday nominated Yale provost Judith Rodin to be Penn's new president...
...Penn Board of Trustees is expected to ratify the nomination on December 16, making Rodin, 49, the first woman to head an Ivy League institution...
...nomination of Judith Rodin is excellent news not only for Penn but for all of higher education," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine. "She is a person of extraordinary skill and insight, and all of us in the university community will benefit from her leadership and good counsel...
...sometimes becomes, the human torso. The "mutilated Eden" of Poland's forest turns into a metaphor of human loss and survival. In the Marlborough show are four bronzes, each 10 ft. to 12 ft. high, called Hand-Like Trees, whose vertical trunks do resemble arms: their looming profiles recall Rodin's standing Balzac, and their vigorous modeling around a split core provokes a distant memory of Matisse's bronze Backs...
...turns on stage while the Texas Club grilled up grub for passers-by and Fat Day, the only mobile band at Harvard, trooped around campus for four hours. Agitprop also organized several "tableaux vivant" of masterworks on the steps of Widener, including Raphael's "The School of Athens" and Rodin's "The Thinker" and "The Kiss." Plans for next year include "Playing With Space," a campus wide competition for the most "creative dorm room space utilization" (the winning bedrooms, bathrooms and closets will be photographed and exhibited) and a project for student musicians to compose and perform scores for silent...