Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GREAT MANY scenes at Harvard seem singularly well suited as backdrops for a novel. The gently rolling waters of the Charles at dusk, with a single oursman sculling past; the Square on a weekend evening, abuzz with music and breathless partygoers; the Yard on a spring afternoon, as sunlight streams through a circle of historic buildings...
...consummate example of Harvard sex intellectualized into gobbledy gook comes in a 1973 short story called "Innocence," by Harold Brodkey '51. As the story begins a Harvard senior named Wiley looks at the object of his lust and states, "To see her in sunlight was to see Marxism die." Naturally, when Wiley lures this apparition into his room and under his covers, it is the occasion for a summa cum laude display of erudition...
...work of sunspots (the magnetic storms on the face of the sun that periodically reduce its radiation) or even planetary alignments. Currently, much of the theorizing centers on El Chichon, the Mexican volcano that erupted last year and ejected huge clouds of dust into the atmosphere. By obscuring sunlight, it may have upset the planet's heat balance enough to disturb the atmosphere and oceans...
...waters surging off the mountains in the rainy season and causing long periods of drought in summer. The torrents may be accompanied by landslides. More subtle damage comes from silting. As rivers wash debris into the clear coastal waters, the particles reduce the transparency of the sea, cut down sunlight and kill off coral reefs and valuable coastal sea grasses, on which much marine life depends...
Outdoors in the bright sunlight, Porter was at his very best, in the "oasis of verdure"--as Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus would call it--of suburban landscaping, or among the towering evergreens on the Mine coast. Porter is free to enjoy the boats, lawns and inlets of Island Farmhouse (1969) and the beauty of the countryside speaks for itself, basically unaltered by the artist's interpretation. Or the observer can join Porter for some salty see spray on The Mall Boat (1973) in which, like scene form On Golden Pond, the skipper at the helm navigates through...