Retiring Faculty
The following is related to
today's previous four log24 entries.
From my paper journal, a Xeroxed note, composed entirely of cut copies
of various documents,
from July 11, 1990….
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Harvard Alumni Gazette June 1990
Retiring Faculty Continue their Love of Learning, Creativity
Thought for today: "He who tells the truth must have one foot in the stirrup." — Armenian Proverb
Preserve me from the enemy
who has something to gain: and
from the friend who has something to lose.
Remembering the words of
Nehemiah the Prophet:
"The trowel in hand, and the gun
rather loose in the holster."
— T. S. Eliot, Choruses from the Rock — 1934
Pattern in Islamic Art is the most thorough study yet published of the structure of the art.
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Oleg Grabar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, will join the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he will devote himself to pure research. He has three books planned — which he estimates will take him about four years to finish — including books on the theory of ornament, and studies of early medieval Jerusalem and Islamic Sicily. "I'm also planning to brush up on my Persian, which I had kind of forgotten," he said.
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Clint Eastwood is the nameless stranger who mysteriously appears in the Warner Brothers film 'Pale Rider.'
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Closing the cylinder, he holstered the gun, pivoted, and strode across the now silent street toward his horse.
An ashen-faced Lahood stared out the second-story window, following the tall man's movements. In his right hand he held a long-barreled blue-black derringer. He raised the muzzle purposefully.
The Preacher put a foot in the stirrup and hesitated. Turning, he lifted his eyes to a particular window. The curtains behind it moved slightly. The report of the single shot was muffled by distance and glass. From his position the Preacher could not hear the thump of the body as it struck the thick Persian rug. He did not have to hear it.
Lahood had begun this day's work, and Lahood had finished it.
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Sources: Harvard Alumni Gazette, local newspaper, a volume of the poems of T. S. Eliot, David Wade's Pattern in Islamic Art, and a paperback novelization of Pale Rider
