Word: continuum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday in June, 1862. The land where they fought had its own history long before the battle and continued to do so even after the guns fell silent. This recognition of history as more than just a series of famous people and momentous events, of history as a continuum of real people and their experiences, makes Svenson's narrative compelling...
...utility company, and eventually defeats the groundhogs. Sometimes, this aspect of Svenson's narrative reads a little like an introductory guide to life on a hay farm. But it becomes clear by the end of the book that Svenson's interaction with the land firmly establishes him in the continuum of history at Cross Keys. He becomes as much a part of the environment as General Trimble and the groundhogs...
...sees it at full stretch in The Soup, with its tremendous image of a working-class Earth Mother, as old as the tenant of a limestone cave but as new as the Republic, gorging herself from the steaming pot, while her infant sucks at her breast -- a continuum of blind appetite, expressed in rhythmical line. Here, the long Rococo tradition in French art of painting the lower classes as nifty milkmaids or idealized swains gets its coup de grace. Not all of Daumier's drawings have the fierceness of this one (how could any artist sustain it?), but they...
...This is a different program from the past years," said Badsah K. Mukhopadhyay '94, director of Ghungroo. "This year we are organizing the acts from a historical narrative in order to find some continuum...The purpose is to educate about South Asian culture as well as entertain the audience...
Captain Tyler Rullman, the Ivy League's leading scorer at 22.4 points per game, is the only player who can consistently conquer the mysterious rifts in the space-time continuum that surround the Harvard basket these days...