Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fuzzy, vaguely romantic images. After World War I, art photographers finally began to come to terms with the nature of their medium. Photographers such as Steiglitz and Strand discovered the artistic possibilities of sharp focus and modern subject matter. Their approach was formal, carefully--considered, composed and crafted. This style reached its peak in the 40's with the work of Edward Weston. Weston photographed mainly nudes, still lifes and landscapes, emphasizing the photograph's wide, tonal scale and capacity to render diamond-sharp details...
That fact, those who are supposed to know say, is the advantage of the University's student-faculty-alumnus-administrator committee style of evaluating its practices: everyone has time to anticipate and get used to the future before it arrives...
...there were those who lived the good life as Harvard undergraduates. In turn of the century Harvard, those who were not compelled by finances to live as Santayana did, found more suitable private accommodations in a fairly grand style at the clubs or in apartments along Mount Auburn Street...
Eventually the Houses came to be an accepted part of the routine of Harvard life if only out of financial necessity for an increased number of students. People, Finley said, "saw that the Houses were going to be places originally not crowded, and done in real style. Meals were served by waitresses and it was really quite grand." If getting into a particular House makes a difference now, then it made one's social world...
Rooming is certainly an important factor in undergraduate happiness at Harvard, but the degree to which the Oxford-style House system will affect a student's four years here is uncertain. Riesman speculates that a small House with a lot of community feeling would reduce the anxieties felt throughout the College. Harvard he said, "has done much less than it might have to respond to the sense of anomie and alienation that students feel...