Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...winters ago, Portfolio, a magazine devoted to reproductions of the best graphics by Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, made its appearance in the Square. This fine effort to stimulate interest in the visual arts in the University was headed by Ben Shahn, then the Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer. With funds supplied from a private source and with the cooperation of the Department of Fine Arts, the venture promised an increased audience for the undergraduate artist. Unfortunately, there was no second issue of this fine publication...
...extent of the Communist threat varies widely in Africa, and is often exaggerated. But even if the widespread Soviet and Chinese interest were absent, the United States still should have a broad sympathy and friendship for the people of Africa as they seek freedom. This country can make an effective contribution to the development of African freedom if it will make the effort. Necessarily that effort will involve money, and we may hope the next Administration will recognize this. But more than money, it will require imagination, energy, and manpower. Technical aid, trained advisers, and a friendly interest are more...
Prettified to the point of sentimentality, four Austrian Baroque sculptures depicting three saints and the Virgin, recall the tendency of that period and that country to sweeten religion. Yet the artist gave these less-than-profound figures and their billowing garb linear fluidity and much plastic interest. Characterized by an adept handling of color, especially pale reds and blue-greens, the Dutch painting portrays Christ on the way to Calvary with expressive, distorted figures...
...Museum surrounds this outstanding work with many of Picasso's graphics and watercolors. Especially beautiful is the 1918 pencil drawing, Bathers, which displays the sure control of sinuous line that characterized his so-called "Neo-Classical" period. Also of great interest is his View of Horta De Ebro, a small, lyric landscape done in 1900. The more than twenty pieces in this exhibit demonstrate the completeness and general high standards of the Fogg's acquisitions. For a university museum, one could hardly imagine a better record of connoisseurship...
...addition to the $82.7 million in donations, another $5 million in interest and capital gains has been received from investment of Program money over the last three years. These funds, not yet allocated, bring the Program's total in-take to about $88 million...