Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard faces its third competitor in four days at 7 p. m. tonight when M. I. T. makes the trek across Cambridge to play in the IAB fencing room...
...That is when the Hanover-Kassel local pulls into Friedland (pop. 1,200), site of West Germany's East European refugee camp. Since the exodus began last week, more than 250 Germans have arrived from Poland-the vanguard of many more who are expected to make the trek by mid-1972. The refugees are the first tangible result of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik...
Given such grossness, why should Little Big Man be counted as a rambunctious triumph? Because in its 360° scope of slaughter and laughter, the film has contrived to lampoon, revere or revile the length and breadth of the entire frontier. On the trek, it demonstrates inconsistencies and errata. For months audiences will be talking about them. It also accomplishes that rarest achievement, the breathing of life into an ossified art form. The '70s has its first great epic. Blood brother to the 1903 one-reeler, The Great Train Robbery, Little Big Man is the new western to begin...
...then the Elvis engagement opened. All through August, leading up to a Labor Day crescendo, Angelinos were making the trek through the desert. "The greatest nightclub act ever," they reported back. (None of us stopped to think that in a world
...faction in German critical thought exhorted artists to stay home, to relate themselves to the northern, Gothic past, to be German painters. But in 1800, modern art meant neoclassicism, and that meant Rome. One of the first on the trek to Italy was Joseph Anton Koch, who headed south in 1794. There is an almost schizophrenic gap between his early landscapes, conceived in reverent imitation of Poussin, and a later painting like Macbeth and the Witches (1834). It is a full-blown response to Goethe's Sturm und Drang, with its flailing energies of cloud and sea, its Gothic...