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Yarding intramural basketball started off yesterday in a swirl of dust as eight fighting aggregations opened their season in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
There was no letdown that day: into Pittsburgh the caravan rolled like a victorious army, through enthusiastic crowds that finally burst into one roaring welter of people and noise in the city's famed Golden Triangle, where blizzards of torn paper swirled and settled only to swirl up again as new waves of screaming rolled up. Only casualty: a motorcycle policeman hit on the wrist by a telephone book someone had neglected to tear...
...will similar to that which ruined the magnificent intellect of Coleridge." Like Coleridge da Vinci had a turbulent romantic imagination. In his unfinished Adoration of the Kings he painted what Clark calls "the most revolutionary and anticlassical picture of the 15th Century," extraordinary for an El Grecoesque swirl of uncountable figures. But Leonardo's passion for scientific precision and classical finish, in Kenneth Clark's opinion, checked, delayed and exhausted...
Slowly, ever so ponderously up out of the inky depths comes the iron chamber. Like a tiny globular elevator in some vast, unpartitioned building, it rises through the water. From its top swirl several strands of seaweed which have twined themselves in the lifting chain with friendly tentacles, and which now hang loose like sparse hairs on the otherwise bald pate of the diving bell. A swirl of the dark current and these few strands, looking grayish in the gloom, drift away, leaving the head completely scalped. From the bottom of the chamber sprouts a sticky brown-black beard which...
Storm (see cut), a fragile swirl of trees, a tethered and terrified stallion and grey space of storm cloud. At 45, accounted one of the dozen most accomplished U. S. painters, Kuniyoshi has begun to make money after years in which he "did everything but commercial art" to keep alive. One thing annoys him: having been born in Japan he cannot become a U. S. citizen...