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Austerity has tended to lose the fight to pizzazz. Shaker furniture makers eventually abandoned pure folk simplicity; Arts and Crafts yeomanry gave way to florid reproductions. Yet by the 1920s, both modes had been supplanted by a new phenomenon: the cult of the machine. Technology cast its spell over the national imagination, and the idea of the future became palpable...
Many people have experienced the portrait's strange spell. "This contrast between the splendor of the helmet and the subdued tonality of the face makes one deeply conscious of both the tangible and intangible forces in Rembrandt's world, and of their inseparable inner relationship," Jakob Rosenberg of Harvard wrote in Rembrandt, Life and Work. "As in all his greatest works, one feels here a fusion of the real with the visionary, and this painting, through its inner glow and its deep harmonies, comes closer to the effect of music than to that of the plastic arts...
...Skinnerean flourish, computers have taken over the roles once filled by biological units called parents. Electronic gizmos can teach your kid to talk, count, spell, add and read as well as to dodge alien fire and blow up spacecraft. But will these toys tell your child that there is a difference between bleach and Sprite? Can "Whiz Kid" instruct your child not to try to swallow the Nerf Pool Cue and Balls? Can "Little Professor" teach your youngster that Lhasa Apsos can cannot survive the intense heat and radiation barrage found inside a microwave oven...
Later at the same game MIT students distributed red and white placards to Harvard fans, supposedly to spell out "Beat Yale". However, when the placards were displayed they actually spelled the name of the school down the river...
This year the Cross is 3-4-1, and many Crusade watchers spell the reason...