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...these painters and their followers. Their relations with this place, or more properly their invention of it, gave modernism its one practical utopia of the senses, a bourgeois Eden whose roots wound back through a coastal peasant culture (still unhurt by tourism in the 1920s) to the Greco-Roman past. Instead of the pie in the sky offered by constructivism, they contemplated the langoustes on the table, bringing their sensuous embodiment to an extraordinary pitch of imaginative precision in which mere fantasy had no role...
...Coach Lou Reycroft. But Reycroft always seems to get more than expected out of his teams, and Cornell (21-7-4, 13-6-2 ECAC) enjoys the greatest home advantage in the league--for opposing teams, playing in front of the Lynah Hall crowd is like stepping into a Roman Coliseum...
...Everyone says how great the Roman Empire is, how the people of Rome loved it because they provided aqueducts so they could be clean and not have head lice anymore," Sandburg laughs. "But I wondered what the response would have been in the outlying areas, when the Roman Empire moved in and imposed itself on little tribes...
...move further away from the cultural centers of the Empire, there seems to be a discrete but perceptible dropping off of Roman culture," Sandburg says, scratching his beard. "It's kind of a logical thing, but no one's ever tested it. Burials seemed like a good place to start, because they're a closed context, yet they're an intimate reflection of society. In a way, they're like time capsules--by looking at the objects in them, you can get a good sense of to what extent the culture is Roman, and to what extent it's indigenous...
Sandburg is currently applying for fellowships to spend next year in Italy to complete fieldwork for his project on Roman culture in outlying areas...