Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fold front-page story told of a meeting of the American Veterans Committee (AVC) on campus. The attendees were not to be old men plodding around with walking sticks, but students from colleges all over New England. Harvard's chapter of the AVC, acting out of that eternal University spirit that places this place at the center of it all, joined with the Boston University chapter to welcome 40 delegations to a conference entitled "Problems of the Student Veteran." The student veteran...
...well seen. Hence the flag. In real life, after Johns, it continued to be the common property of all Americans, the climax of their stock of public symbols. But in the art world, it became Johns' own sign. Other artists would use the Stars and Stripes in a spirit of provocation. Not Johns; his flags had a beautiful and troubling muteness. They were cooler than the culture wanted them to be, in the midst of the cold...
Call it the British spirit. In fashion, at least, London is reprising its swinging Carnaby Street days of 30 years ago. It may be that some of the duo's panache comes from being English. British culture is not hospitable to the zany, the innovative. It prefers solid, stout garments to high fashion, and Camilla is the paradigm, not Diana. So a young person seriously interested in a subversive field like fashion is likely to be highly rebellious...
...20th century. My own style is close to M. Dior's because of his romantic and hyperfeminine style." Each man has a point. The fashion industry hopes these newcomers will touch feminine fantasy the way the old masters did. But Galliano and McQueen also carry other legacies: the British spirit and the brash vitality of Central Saint Martins. That may work in their favor...
There's an old saying that you always get back to basics. This wisdom couldn't be truer for Bill Gates, who has come home to mother Harvard roughly 20 years after he dropped out to found Microsoft corporation. Well, come home in spirit, if not in flesh. For along with Microsoft executive vice president Steven A. Ballmer '77 (who is a Crimson Editor), Gates has donated a healthy $25 million to the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS...