Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle of politics and palates has been the subject of more than 30 articles, commentaries, editorials and letters. The path of the grape issue from a yellow comment card to a new menu item to a campus legend was at the very least facilitated, if not driven, by The Crimson's coverage...
After topics including landscape and the relationship between painting and photography, this year's studio theme, "The Body," emphasizes the contemporary art world's renewed interest in figuration since the late 1970s. This subject has clearly provided fodder for many of the works in the show, which range from earnest and literal to playful and abstract. Small paper mach'e sculptures by Jennifer E. Mergel '98 sprout lively appendages from their baseball or bagel-shaped body blobs. In one, two straining neuron-like beings wrestle or dance with the energetic whipping of their interconnected arms. Nearby, another languishes...
...switch the subject to Harvard...
Holub is less successful when he turns his hand to overt political commentary. The heading of the book's second section, "Trouble on Spaceship Earth," sounds like the title of a Discovery Channel special, and the subject matter is suspiciously similar. When Holub dispenses unqualified environmental advice and chastises trendy scientific theorists, his otherwise sparkling essays acquire the atmosphere of soapbox sermons. The otherwise pedestrian chapter is punctuated by a few gems, such as "What the Nose Knows," a Proustian reverie on the atavistic power of scent, and the powerful "Shedding Life," which might have been titled "Killing a Muskrat...
...perhaps no one has been through more headaches than the students at the Institute of Politics (IOP), who began early this fall trying to plan a year-long set of discussions at Harvard on the subject of race...