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...mark. Denmark's Georg Jensen's silver and opal Dragonfly brooch (1904) and fellow Dane Erik Magnussen's Grasshopper brooch (1907) of silver and coral are unmistakably art nouveau. They are also unmistakably Scandinavian. Like virtually all the objects in this exhibition, they show the patient toil brought to bear on stubborn, natural materials. This is what Frank Lloyd Wright called "organic" design...
...been replaced by tales of streetwise punks" [May 31]. Many of my students are streetwise, but also enjoy Emerson. His philosophy is applicable to the young person today who understands that with our economic turmoil "no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given...
...born to toil, and to be obsessive about his labors. Woman was born to complain: "You never pay any attention to me." More divorce wars seem to start with this skirmish than with anything else these days, and the virtues of Smash Palace begin with the simple fact that it has observed the phenomenon closely and painfully. Odd that we have to look as far away as New Zealand (not exactly one of our major movie centers) for what may be the most melodramatic but also the most acutely motivated film yet about divorce...
...least that's what the Harvard baseball team is hoping. Although the stud pitchers--Columbia's Kurt Lundgren, Cornell's Greg Myers. Navy's Jim McMurtry--toil else-where in the Eastern League, no squad has a staff as deep, from top to bottom, as Alex Nahigian's Crimson. And with the revamped EIBL schedule calling for back-to-back, weekend double-headers, every team will have to unearth a fourth starter and third reliever every Sunday...
Computer-security experts readily Computer-security experts readily admit that they do not offer fail-safe protection. As they toil at erecting new electronic fences around computers, astute crooks are just as busy finding ways to break them down. Research into computer security, now going on at numerous companies and universities, has become almost as supersecret as nuclear-weapons development or germ-warfare studies. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and at SRI International are studying a frightening flaw in the programming of many computer systems that could allow criminals who find it to get around standard security...