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...world of crew, the Harvard heavies will stroke against Princeton and MIT for the Compton Cup, while the lights will try to sink Navy in the Holmes Cup, Saturday on the Charles...
Harvard senior Andrew Borg presented "Between Two Moons," his thesis-in-progress for Visual Studies. (Its final performance will be May 7-9 with the Harvard/Radcliffe Dance Company). Huddled in heavy army-green overcoats, Borg and dancers Nancy Compton and Kat Fischer enter and traverse the dimly-lit space, establishing characters through their idiosyncratic gaits: Compton inches forward, Borg sneaks backwards, and Fischer steals sideways. They turn sharply and skulk towards the audience--sputtering, chortling, swallowing shrill screams -- then disappear into the wings. The three return, this time with overcoats hunched up over their heads, and pick up the stealthy...
Today an immense ignorance of Japanese swords prevails outside Japan. There is one great private collection of them in the U.S., gathered over 40 years by Dr. Walter Compton of Elkhart, Ind. Last week 46 of his classical blades-the tachi or long cavalry sword, the shorter katana and the dirks known as tantos and wakizashis-went on view at Manhattan's Japan Society. The show is a scholarly event of the first importance, and its catalogue-mainly written by Japan's leading student of blades, 29-year-old Ogawa Morihiro-becomes at one stroke the standard text...
...example is the glittering arc of Kunimune, a late 13th century blade that Dr. Compton bought from a job lot offered by a Midwestern gun dealer. The sword, which had been looted from its shrine in Kyushu by a G.I. and has since been restored to Japan as a gift, is considered by Ogawa Morihiro "perfect in every aspect among all the existing national treasure blades." At first sight, it is difficult to imagine that the sword was finished by a contemporary of Giotto, a quarter of a century before Dante began writing the Divine Comedy...
...edge pattern, made by painting a slurry of clay and steel filings along the blade just before its last firing and quenching, is even more pictorial. Its crystalline opacities resemble those of classical sumi-e ink painting, suggesting hills, river currents, islands or the wreathing of vapor. Dr. Compton likes to compare Kunimune's hamon to "low-lying mist on a swamp, with searchlights playing over it." These configurations are not seen as decoration, like inlay work or chasing on a Western sword...