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...undergraduate president of the Fly told The Crimson, "In view of the University's need to expand in the Cambridge area, we feel that such a sale of land, which isn't being used for anything at present, is justified, although we hate to see it go." More tea leaf reading on the land's destiny came from an anonymous, high-ranking University official, who said, "You don't expect a valuable piece of grass like that to remain unused...
...became more aware of Charlie, who was ever aware of us and each tree and each branch and each leaf. The way he explained it was this: "What's happened, see, is me not adjusting to the 'Free World.' I've made up my own world. In other words, I didn't and wouldn't adjust to society and their reality of things...
...some reason, uncopiable turquoise-glazed black-figure ware which was produced in Syria around the 12th century. One plate (see cut) bears the design of a heron, stalking with incomparable grace through this background color as if through azure water. The body of a vase is adorned with leaf-shaped flecks of black, each done with one movement of the brush, but the design−in all its swift irregularity−is full of vitality. The Arabic mastery of pattern was absolute...
...Photographer Richard Avedon of his exhibition at Manhattan's Marlborough Gallery. Avedon, 52, who helped revolutionize fashion photography by focusing beyond cosmetic beauty on the human side of his models, has put over 100 portraits on view, and prints of 75 on sale. Like that of Sculptress June Leaf, 46, most photographs show an unsmiling subject, slightly off center, standing before a plain white backdrop. "June is one of the most beautiful women I've ever photographed," said Avedon of Leaf. "What came forward was not the fact that she has a beautiful face, which...
Borrowing a leaf from the evolutionary theme of French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the theologians interpret human history as an upward curve, with God acting with man in a cooperative process of liberating humanity and the world. Sin is anything that resists or undercuts this process, or any oppression of one person-or group-by another. Salvation lies in a commitment to love of neighbor and thus a willingness to fight oppression, with revolution if need be. Camilo Torres, the Colombian guerrilla priest who was shot down by government troops in 1966, is the folk hero of liberation theology...