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...five tiny Abstractions in 1910-11, perhaps a little before Kandinsky's first abstract compositions. Daringly radical for their time, today some of these look not so abstract after all: Abstraction No. 1 reads like a landscape, with sky at top, hills and what appears to be a tower pierced by a window. When Dove talked and wrote about abstraction, what did he mean? Not pure abstract form, certainly. Nature was of absolutely paramount importance to him: in hills, rocks, sea, sky, trees, moon and sun, he saw a richness and variety of shape that inspired him throughout his working...
Charney seems to have adjusted to life in the shadow of Harvard's ivory tower, but with a new proposal to build the Knafel Center for the Humanities just across the street from William James, he says he feels his neighborhood's character slipping away...
...staff members constantly roam the globe, visiting countries and meeting with finance ministers and central-bank governors. "This is not ivory-tower analysis," says Shailendra Anjaria, director of the external-relations department at the IMF. "This is get-your-feet-wet, on-the-scene inspection." Because the IMF releases its funds in periodic amounts, it has a lever to keep countries in line. Says Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers: "It's very important that we put out fires without giving people an incentive to leave matches around the next time...
...Harvard students can already buy tickets at Tower Records and HMV," said Michael Norton, general manager of New England Ticketmaster. "[But] we are very supportive of BosTix and their opening in Harvard Square...
...otherwise just show up. Getting to the store from Harvard Square couldn't be easier. Simply take the inbound Red Line to Park Street. At Park St., take any outbound Green Line train to the Hynes Convention Center. Eric Flaim's Motion Sports is right across the street from Tower Records at the subway stop...