Word: ski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the snow begins to fall the crew takes to Weld Boathouse, and the ski team heads for the hills of Vermont and New Hampshire...
...Skiing, unlike crew, which requires many long hours of strenuous practice, is a fairly easy sport to learn. The basic thing to remember is that one should always ski down a hill, because when you row up a hill, you have to go against the current. The crew member already knows this, of course, because his rowing practice all fall has taught him to keep his knees bent, his back arched in a straight line, and his head down as he strokes...
...various mornings-after between 1908 and 1920, Amedeo Modigliani carved and painted in Paris a few hundred works of purity, warmth and glamour. Almost all the pictures represented people he loved, but with rubicund flesh, swan necks outstretched, ski-jump noses and sightless, slanting eyes. They were men and women molded to a very private vision of how humans ought to look, a vision that only Modigliani's power as a designer could put across and make seem beautiful. All his control was reserved for art; in life he had none...
Painter Ollie Harrington, who earns his living as a cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Courier and other Negro newspapers, enjoys the freedom to travel. "I like to swim and ski and deep-sea fish, all strictly restricted in the U.S. Here I can step into my car and drive wherever I like, certain that at the end of the day I will find a good hotel and a good restaurant, and that I can sit down without attracting the slightest attention, or exciting curiosity. In Sweden, that's still another matter; they run after you there. I can do without...
...Hope Buick Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Old ski nose returns, assisted by an equally great clown, France's Fernandel...