Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stark, monumental one-two-three composition is complemented by the red-white-red of the costumes, which sound out loud and strong, like chords, against the chilly silence of the curtain background. Although crudely painted in spots, the picture is too convincing for technical quibbles. Each of the three acrobats is characterized as an individual, yet even on the tanbark they seem to soar as a team...
From the nave, González built steps to the altar, a massive table of bricks. High in the apse, stark against the black salt, he set a 20-ft. cross made of thick, wooden poles. Last week, in preparation for the Christmas service, the miners were putting a finishing touch on their church: a 2,200-ft. tunnel to the mountain slope, which will provide a reassuring pinpoint of daylight for nervous visitors...
Bolivia is packed with such stark contrasts. It is a country of majestic mountain scenery and miserable human squalor, of tremendous natural resources and examples of their wretched neglect and abuse. To the west, condors soar over abandoned Spanish silver mines near icy, blue Titicaca, highest navigable lake in the world; in the remote east, ranchers graze their gaunt herds in a jungle reputed to be floating on oil. The Bolivian land itself is split in two-the barren, windswept uplands, fenced about by the snowy Andes; and the vast, green east, an unpopulated, trackless region of plains and jungle...
Barbar Burt, SG: Stanley Cavell, 2G; Richard Reche, '50 3G: Anne Cook, '53; David L., Stark, '53; Martin J. Wohi...
...Scottish-English ancestry. His father, Watts S. Humphrey, was a lawyer. After taking engineering courses along the way, George graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1912, became the second Humphrey in his father's firm (Humphrey, Grant & Humphrey) in Saginaw. In 1913, he married Pamela Stark, his school-day sweetheart. They have two daughters and a son (another son died), and eight grandchildren...