Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prince of Conservatives," as Harvard Magazine recently dubbed him, is almost at home cooking the first full meal of his life. While he is more comfortable teaching a popular class on ancient and medieval political philosophy or conducting research on his new book, entitled Manliness, Mansfield also enjoys being provocative. His hyperbole becomes campus controversy. He calls gay sex "shameful." He speculates that the rise in black students at Harvard has led to grade inflation. He repeatedly warns against the dangers of disrespecting manliness...
...unlucky proprietor of the annoyingly ancient "Blue Laws," Massachusetts has yet to repeal these laws responsible for early Sunday closings, the ban on alcohol sales after 10:45 p.m., the closing of liquor stores on Sundays and the closing of bars...
During the disturbance, some of the cops had to be diverted from guarding the graveyard, where the men with the pamphlets had long ago given up their perch by the entrance. So with no one to stop them, teenagers in costumes filtered into the cemetery, wandering bemused among the ancient headstones. Disrespectful, yes--but maybe an appropriate way to end a night devoted to mocking the past...
...major themes--that of threatened ways of life. Ashitaka goes on a journey to find where the Tartari Gemi came from--specifically to find what or who created the iron slug he finds in the Tartari Gemi's corpse. Eventually, he discovers a group of iron-workers destroying an ancient forest and killing its gods. He also meets Princess Mononoke, a human girl raised by Moro, a Wolf Goddess, who is engaged in a war with the humans of the ironworks. Miyazaki refuses to let the situation become too simple; by somewhat contrived means it becomes clear that the ironworkers...
...Founded in 1985 to hold Harvard's collection of Asian, Ancient, Islamic, and Indian art, the Sackler is the newest addition to the Harvard University Museums. The holdings contain one of the best jade collections in the country, as well an extensive representation of early Chinese bronzes (most notably a series of three ritual bells from the late Chou dynasty). Also particularly strong are the ancient Greek vases, with exquisite exa.m.ples of both red-figure and black-figure techniques. Not to be missed: the beautifully preserved and delicately painted Japanese hand-scroll depicting "The Tale of the Rat." Currently...