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...Some of the greatest modern painters--Kandinsky, for instance, or Mondrian--saw their work as an instrument of evolution and human development. But Picasso had no more of a Utopian streak than did his Spanish idol, Goya. The idea that art evolved, or had any kind of historical mission, struck him as ridiculous. "All I have ever made," he once said, "was made for the present and in the hope that it will always remain in the present. When I have found something to express, I have done it without thinking of the past or the future." Interestingly, he also...
...moved to England. There he married (disastrously), met the entrepreneurial Ezra Pound and, while working at Lloyds Bank, brought out Prufrock and Other Observations. Five years later, after a nervous breakdown and a stay in a Swiss sanatorium in Lausanne, he published The Waste Land. Modern poetry had struck its note...
...whole life I grew up wanting to be a part of Harvard," Barber says. "When I was told that I would have the same college opportunity that my male classmates would, but I would get a different-looking diploma and I would have to graduate differently, it struck me. It made me feel that this dream I had had for my whole life I couldn't have because...
...first foreign head of state to visit Somalia after famine struck in 1992 and she was among the first to go to Rwanda after the 1994 genocide there...
Police reported that the Leverett House sophomore was struck by a subway train in midtown Manhattan. Fitzpatrick had been on a voluntary leave of absence at the time, and was planningto return to Harvard in the spring, according toLeverett House Senior Tutor JudithMurciano-Goroff...