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...local schools cancel classes on the Thursday and Friday of the Masters. On Wednesday, the day of the par-three tournament, one area school reported over 600 of its 1300 students absent. Unlike regular tournament play--for which tickets must be purchased in advance--the practice rounds were open to the general public at the cost of $5 a ticket. The school secretary said "Practically all of them [the absentees] are at the Masters. Even the principal is out at the par-three today...
...Michelangelo's figura serpentinata; the strained and tangled poses; the weird color, by turns opulent and acidly dry; the Biblical and classical allegories, recondite to the point of eccentricity. "A courtly art," observed Art Historian André Chastel, "always tends to develop a universe from which nature is absent"-and Mannerism was the courtliest and most artificial of styles. At Fontainebleau, the world of nature and the spontaneous passions was sublimated-in art as, one presumes, in life-into an elaborate system of symbols...
...wife of a gentile doctor early in the Third Reich. Preparing to leave the country (to make things easier for her husband), she incessantly purses her lips and tenses her fingers through a series of phone calls to friends, then shouts her way through an imagined dialogue with the absent husband. A friend of mine who spent several weeks of a drama workshop on this Brecht play tells me that this difficult role ought to be played down, and I think he's right. But Singer just keeps pouring it on, repeating the same nervous pauses and tense jerkings until...
...cells, in a phenomenon known as "graft v. host" reaction, thus rejected the host, producing lymphocytes capable of reacting with and destroying his tissue. In fact, the reaction, combined with infection and other factors, could prove fatal to the recipient whose immune system was either weak or absent...
...Absent too, however, was the exhilaration and fervor of engaging, competitive, intercollegiate basketball. Although this "low-profile" program may well have been constructive and rewarding to the players themselves, it was hardly meaningful to the school or the community, and it was exciting to absolutely no one. Harvard was simply not attracting those amply qualified students who were also blue-chippers on the basketball court. Nor was it attempting...