Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven inches of snow fell gently in downtown Anchorage last week, 1,000 spectators and representatives of two dozen oil companies crowded into the convention area in the International Banquet House. They were there to hear bids announced for federal lease sales in the Beaufort Sea, which perhaps contains some of the richest untapped deposits of oil and gas in the U.S. The fields are believed to hold as much as 2.3 billion bbl. of oil and 1.8 trillion cu. ft. of natural...
...terribly disappointed when the band was not invited to West point but I was insulted when the seem agreed to go without the band, The Harvard Band, the unsung heroes of the University community, has supported the football seam for 63 years, through winning and losing seasons, rains, snow, sub-freezing temperature, and enormous financial burdens, It would have been a well-deserve, gesture had the Atheistic Department refused to send the football team to Army without the band...
...accuracy of tone is phenomenal; there are hardly any "holes" and tonally inert areas in his work. With a loaded, flouncing brush he can put in the blue rim of ice around the cold black water of a pond, or the melting rime on the flank of a snow hummock, so that the substance is as palpable as the gesture...
...best of his land scape work Welliver has an emotional intensity that goes beyond the ordinary limits of realism in painting. Shadow is a stand of birches in snow: strong blue sky peeping through their pale trunks, and more blue scattered in the luminous dark clefts of the snow lying on fallen brush. Just above the middle of the painting, the shadow line of a ridge falls across the trees and the ground. The hill behind you becomes a silent, extraordinary presence: not menacing, not metaphorical, but a sign of what the Middle Ages called natura naturans: nature disclosing itself...
POLITICAL RALLIES AT HARVARD have run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous. Three winters ago, for example, a crowd 1000-strong braved the bitter cold to protest President Carter's reinstatement of draft registration. But, in the midst of a freak snow storm last spring, only about 100 people decried the Reagan Administration's cuts in financial aid to students...