Word: basement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston fans no longer have their hometown horse to watch this afternoon. Timely Writer, the Filene's Basement bargain colt owned and raced by two area meat merchants, came under the knife himself last week. An operation for an inflamed intestine saved the winter dazzler from an un-Timely death, but it also placed him on the sidelines for today's race. Trainer Dominic Imprescia, who dressed to match the pink flamingos at Hialeah for the Florida Derby, will be wearing black during the Run for the Roses...
...Harvard will even offer its little museum a slot on a University fund drive. No one knows when that might happen, and University officials decline comment on the question. Until then, the two museums will get by on their own, side by side: graduate students burrowing in the basement collection; the volunteers printing T-shirts that say "Harvard" in five ancient Semitic languages...
...CfIA ended up staying for 21 years, relegating the museum to the building's basement. But in the meantime--despite a bomb blast anti-war demonstrators staged in 1970 to protest the presence of then-Professor Henry A. Kissinger '50 in the building--things were finally stirring in the department. Top scholars were brought back to Cambridge, partly as a result of pressure from the stubborn few who stayed through the lean years and partly to keep up in the academic rat race...
...current curator. "It's like dealing with the Catholic Church, or the U.S. Government." Gavin arrived here in the late 1960s as a doctoral candidate in Syrio-Palestinian archaeology and took an immediate interest in the large and dusty collection of artifacts he found locked away in the basement at 6 Divinity Ave. That jumble of clay figurines and broken pottery on plywood shelves was the Harvard Semitic Museum: nearly 10,000 objects tucked into 3467 square feet of space. Trying to locate anything in that congested basement was like setting out on an archaelogical...
...what is in store for the museum after the Danzig collection moves on in June? Provided it can come up with some display cases, part of that vast collection in the basement will go on exhibit in the upper floors. The scholarly machinery will continue humming as it has for a generation now. As Cross points out, scholars don't need display cases; they have been getting along perfectly well with the collection in the basement all this time. Without an attraction like "Danzig" and the high-gear publicity that accompanied it, will the general public bother to stop...