Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Edvard was 14. his elder sister Sophie died of tuberculosis. The delayed impact of his sister's death showed in Sick Child (opposite), a theme Munch first sketched when he was 22, continued obsessively in lithographs and oils. Owing some of its quality to the impressionist colors he had seen in Paris, it captures what he bore indelibly in his memory: "the pale head with bright red hair against the white pillow, the trembling lips, the transparent skin, the tired eyes...
...white and the cardoon are on the window sills, a village woman empties a chamber pot on two peasants. This has the odd effect of stirring their passions, and they waylay Michela with rape in mind. The rape is not accomplished, but Michela becomes as mutely mad as her sister; what is more she is really in love with one of the peasants and he with her. Father Nicola renounces the traditional vengeance, but there is more violence, including 'castration and murder, before the survivors take off to the New World...
...this by contributing to the Radcliffe quota for either the proposed Harvard-Radcliffe Health Center or the Harvard-Radcliffe Theatre. Both these projects, which were announced this year, represent considerable forward steps in the development of closer relations between the University and its "sister college...
Radcliffe administrators, moreover, are quick to point out the advantages to Annex students of even the limited amount of independence which the sister school still maintains. The most obvious is the smaller size of Radcliffe which permits a greater degree of warmth and friendliness between students and administrators than can exist in an institution the size of Harvard...
...last year, twelve degrees were awarded. To Goheen, the classics scholar who will succeed Harold W. Dodds as president of Princeton was awarded the LL.D. with the citation: We salute the chosen one of a favorite sister...