Word: basement
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...Ruth was dead. Broun Sr., a lifelong atheist, converted to Roman Catholicism shortly before his death at 51. He left behind a bewildered preppie who, for years afterward, wanted only "to set up a house where my parents could go on living, a place with three floors and a basement, one floor for each of us and a basement where we could all get together...
Whose Little Boy Are You? is that basement. Here, three souls continue to skirmish in a classic recollection of liberalism carried to the point of tyranny. Perhaps in her reading, Ruth Hale ran across another observation by Oscar Wilde: "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." This is one of those rare and rueful times...
...addition, there were some peculiarities which only the most devoted council members was able to appreciate. The council's office, burred in the basement of Canday Hall, was maintained by a scrupulous office manager, Stan S. Butler. The chalkboard was always washed, and notices on the bulletin board were always squarely lined up and pinned with four tacks each. Butler also apparently labelled everything "OFFICE COPY." Including one participant recalls, a single matchbook deep in a musty file drawer...
...well as Ed School students, and Julia R. Gordon '85, chairman of PBH's Community Action and Legal Services committee, says undergrads help out at PLAP and other law school programs. And a new PBH committee on the homeless helped Divinity School students run a shelter in the basement of a local church this winter for some of Cambridge's many street dwellers...
...Medical School celebrated its 200th anniversary with a week of pomp and symposia, and the event brought together perhaps the greatest group of medical talent ever assembled at Harvard. Beginning with three doctors lecturing to a handful of students in the basement of Harvard Hall, the Med School has grown into $95 million per year operation with more than 3000 faculty and 700 students...