Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder people aren't sporting canes these days. After all, to truly capture the essence of puma, one must travel to a flea market overseas (or Mayfair) to procure a chiseled wooden cane with a carved jackal as the handle. Yeah, baby...
...More so than anything else I read at a young age, Tintin kindled my fascination with writing, foreign affairs and travel. The eponymous hero of Herge's series is a young newspaper journalist who travels about the world solving one scandalous affair after another (and manages to spend surprisingly zero time at the office). Opium smuggling in the Orient, counterfeiting schemes in Scotland and underwater treasuring hunting pose no problem for the resourceful Tintin. With the aid of Captain Haddock and pet dog Snowy, Tintin makes short work of the thugs and brings the ringleaders to justice...
Goldman had several motivations for her design. She thought that airport public art should be calming and relaxing, since air travel is stressful for many people, and they don't need to have their nerves jarred by confrontational or unpleasant art. In addition, she thought that it should be acessible to as many people as possible, and also communicate something about the city it is located in-- "a sense of place so that the Logan experience feels uniquely like Boston, as opposed to, say Phoenix," she mused. The nautical theme does all of this well--it reflects the ocean that...
...recipients of the Henry Russell Shaw Fellowship are Daniel J. Epstein '99 of Quincy house, Maxwell N. Krohn '99 of Kirkland House and James E. Lenhart '99 of Quincy House. The scholarship is awarded to men for travel to Europe...
Dena B. Bennet '99 of Leverett House is the sole recipient of the Benjamin a. Trustman Fellowship, which also supports overseas travel...