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Within the sheltering ivy-kissed walls of Harvard Stadium, however, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind. They could see how the next three months would unfurl, as clearly and simply as the plays drawn up on the blackboard in Dillon Fieldhouse. Only the details had yet to be filled in. There would be a comeback or two and a couple of blowout wins. There would be a sunny September day where Ryan Fitzpatrick’s receivers made catch after balletic catch. There would be a frigid October afternoon where Bobby Everett’s defense...
...struck by the similarity of Bennelong Point to the nearby Helsing?r-Elsinore peninsula, where Shakespeare set Hamlet. What eventually crystallized in his drawings was a raised plateau and airborne structures not unlike sails. In his original plans, the podium would house the backstage business; upstairs, the public spectacle would unfurl. Utzon is often cast by his critics as a Hamlet-like figure, a daydreamer unable to carry out his plans. This exhibition shows quite the opposite. When the shells at first proved too irregular to cast from cement, Utzon drew on a 900-year-old Chinese treatise on architecture, Ying...
...cloud looms over the picturesque horizon. After the holidays, the roommates will uproot the Christmas tree and unfurl the Love Actually ribbon from the walls. But Ahn and Galbreth know how to move on—Lord of the Rings is about to be released on DVD. And with a new movie comes a new challenge, at least for Ahn and her fellow movie-lovers. “[We’ll] see if we can sit through the 14-hour marathon.” Poignantly and somewhat disappointedly, Ahn adds, “I don’t think...
Officials certainly didn’t hesitate to unfurl their flags on Saturday afternoon, throwing 15, 10 of which were against Harvard...
...another brisk New England winter draws to a close, one more of Harvard Square’s beloved blossoms has been killed by frost, never to unfurl its tender petals again. But this frost is not the same frost that snaps at the ears of red-cheeked students; it is rather an icy Cantabrigian apathy that has gnawed upon many of the Square’s most august institutions. The dead flower is the Grolier Poetry Book Shop...