Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faculty members. It is one of the few places where students can become acquainted with some of the administrators and professors who really do run Harvard. That is another reason why the CHUL can be considered to be a big-time committee. Although student members have little power, they rub shoulders with a few people...
...quite specifically, Harvard role models. There's not a single "failure" or malcontent among them. Harvard is proud of every one. Most of them were undergraduates here, and are eagerly pursuing careers as Harvard administrators, Harvard academes, and Harvard-trained lawyers and businessmen. Their enthusiasm is likely to rub off on 18 and 19 year olds who were never so confused in their lives...
...treasured the oil they pressed from the beans of the wild jojoba shrub. In Arizona and California the jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah) oil was used as a nostrum for almost every ill: to ease childbirth, as a remedy for cancer, even as a laxative. Spanish colonists liked to rub the waxy, colorless oil on their mustaches. Last week a panel of National Research Council scientists reported that the jojoba bean may also be a panacea for the endangered sperm whale...
...Rabe is out to spare us nothing. Not only do characters in this particular situation comedy have to go the the bathroom; worse, they come out with lines like "I want to drink from the toilet and wash there." This is precisely what Rabe wants us to do--to rub our noses in all that is sordid and smelly in the way of life we've spent so much blood trying to inflict on the rest of the world...
...exhibition that would do full justice to Rubens' impact on later art would have to be encyclopedic, and perhaps it will come in 1977 with the 400th anniversary of his birth. But meanwhile, a fascinating exploration of Rubénisme (in Flanders, England and France) is on show in Providence, sponsored by Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Organized by graduate students under Assistant Professor Mary C. Volk of Brown, it is the first systematic effort to show Rubens' posthumous influence on Europe theme by theme. It is hard to see how so much territory...