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...Hanna H. Gray, former president of the University of Chicago, will speak at the MIT commencement on Friday, June...
...president of the University of Chicago for 15 years, Hannah Gray Played a crucial role in defining the importance of research universities to the health of the nation," said MIT President Charles M. Vest...
...Gray, who served as president of the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1993, is a historian with special interests in the history of humanism, political and historical thought and politics in the Renaissance and Reformation. She taught history at the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1972 and is now the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor of History...
...camera work is especially disappointing. With the full expanse of the heather-clad highlands to exploit, Caton-Jones focuses over and over again on hackneyed panorama shots and unconvincing, Hollywood-esque interiors. The few inspired angles on gray sky and barren hillsides only whet the viewer's appetite. Again, directorial detail work is evidenced in the all-too-fake sets of bad teeth and in the caked-on facial dirt (Make-up #57): "Psst! This is the eighteenth century...
...climactic paintings of the early '60s, like Monastery, 1961, and Monsoon, 1961-62, abstractness prevails more, but there are still traces of figures within the cells of Monastery; a kind of prayer hum seems to emanate from its gray congested surface, suggesting collectivity through the soft friction of forms. Monsoon encases a memory of the nightmare raft trip, with a disjointed white calligraphy playing, slower than lightning, over the darkness behind it. Its movements seem just on the point of incoherence, as though an already indeterminate Cubist space had been subject to unbearable stress. But it doesn't fall apart...