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...resembled an explosion in a kaleidoscope factory. Abstractionist Miro had littered potato-sack burlap with insectile, wire-worky lines, spots and doodads. Miro's titles were less abstract than his pictures. Samples: A Drop of Dew Falling from the Wing of a Bird Awakens Rosalie Asleep in the Shade of a Cobweb; Women Greeting the Crescent of the Moon; Personages Magnetized by the Stars...
...forty thousand dollar athletic budget cut will begin by showing itself in little ways. Tom Bolles at the boathouse is losing his telephone, and now he and the other coaches will have to run downstairs to answer the one of the ground floor. The launches are losing their rich shade of Harvard red and changing to a neutral and economical white. The football team will use its old uniforms next fall, instead of handling them down to the J.V.'s, who usually hand them down to the Freshmen the following year, who hand them down to the House teams...
...captain and leading scorer of the Crimson will be up against two of a trio of the country's speediest middle distance men, Captain Sanburn, Howie Johnson and Rene Chouteau. Powers is undefeated in this event so far this year and his best time, 2:15.4, is only a shade over Sanburn's fastest clocking...
...introduced in the House contained an item of $5,000,000 for harbor improvements at Guam. For three days Congressmen raged against this item. Their theme: the appropriation might offend Japan, cause war. The debate began on the eve of Washington's Birthday; speaker after speaker summoned the shade of the Father of his Country, keened over the insult to Japan (though amused Japanese politely protested that the U. S. had a perfect right to improve its own property), and the item was stricken from the bill...
...harm in "simply giving the students the facts?" they asked. "A picture which is not real will breed far more cynicism than evaluation of our institutions." What they were driving at was "reasoned respect." And now Robey, the voice of prejudiced business, took excerpts from their contexts intentionally to shade this purpose...