Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world of Daumier sculpture have been snatched away from a dusty drawer of art history and neatly placed in a revolutionary exhibition at the Fogg Museum. Rather than presenting only assuredly authentic pieces, the curators have invited viewers to join in their game of evaluation by including in the show works of dubious origin. You judge the merit of a cast; you detect a forgery...
...connection with the recent events at Harvard, a number of false inferences have been suggested by published news reports. Articles in the New York Times about Harvard do not conform in all respects with reality, as some examples will show. Yet it seems to us essential that the record be accurate, for misinterpretations of the actions of the Harvard faculty may encourage excesses by extremists of the left or the right far beyond the college campuses...
...expects her to be in. Often, several of the Scholars bring sandwiches and have lunch together at the Institute. They are get together, too, when each week a different Scholar gives a talk about what she's trying to do. About two-thirds of the Scholars usually show up at these 'colloquia," along with the Institute administrators, Mrs. Bunting, and whoever else is interested. (Cliffies are especially welcome, though few come, since the colloquia are not publicized.) But, there's no pressure on the Scholars to appear at lunchtime or at the colloquia. Their schedules are completely their...
...Residence Office makes a great point of anonymity for the girls who want to see him. Those who seek appointments call the Residence Office and arrange a time to meet him, without leaving a name. At that time, they are expected to show up outside the room in Hilles Library that Graham uses for his office. He says that most girls usually keep their appointments. He has about 20 individual one-hour appointments on his weekends here. "I almost always fit everyone in just barely," he says...
...game as a device to make all the others share in the self-hatred he feels at being a homosexual. While he hopes that "not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story," he cannot escape his conviction that misery is all he will ever know ("Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gray corpse"). He places his final hopes on the possibility that even seemingly straight Alan is in reality a "closet queer," unhappy like the rest of them. In the game and the play, it is Alan's phone call that...