Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A 17-year-old Adams House dining hall worker is in a coma after being hit Sunday by a drunk driver in a stolen vehicle.
Daniels, a senior at Somerville High School, has worked at Adams House for a month and is well liked by both employees and students. "She's really outgoing," said Jimmy Ruma, fellow dining hall worker and classmate of Daniels.
When Adams House changed its policy for smoking in the dining hall--limiting smoking to just four tables--students immediately suspected a plot underfoot. Students charged that the restrictive policy was covertly aimed at reducing the number of interhouse diners who smoke.
But Adams House Senior Tutor Marshall Hyatt countered the common opinion. "If we decide to cut down on interhouse meals, we would be up front about it. We wouldn't do it in the guise of smoking."
The machine, with its stripped and logical forms, its imagery of power, change and fast communication, would make concrete what Walt Whitman had dreamed of: "The expression of the American poet is to be transcendent and new." Farewell to Henry Adams' Virgin, to the Renaissance and Gothic nostalgia that had...