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...fact, two freshmen, Glen McDonald and Henry Riggs, were so upset that they went to the top. No, they didn't ask evolution mogul Steven Jay Gould to resurrect the great beast. They asked President Derek C. Bok to divest of Harvard's stock in companies that contributed to the decline and fall of the prehistoric animal...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Of Mammoths and Missives | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...beast that inevitably draws attention. From the lime green railings to the Abu Simbel-like entry way to the porthole-like windows on the side of an expansive brick wall, it is not just a museum, it is an architect's work...

Author: By Matthew Snyder, | Title: It's Art--for the Sake of Art | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...sweet convulsion/ Thoughts are sweating inside my head/ . . . I start to howl in heat/ I . . ." and this next word presents a problem. How to handle propriety and make her point at the same time? Spelling is the answer. She pronounces each of the four letters, then finishes, ". . . like a beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rock Is a Four-Letter Word | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...killing of more than 250,000 at Treblinka and Sobibor, was discovered following a police raid on a party of former Nazis celebrating Hitler's birthday. The Brazilian Supreme Court refused, in turn, bids by West Germany, Poland, Austria and Israel to extradite him. Wagner, the "Human Beast," was a free man when he committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches the Mengele Mystery | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...Stirling is adding what a Cambridge, Mass., guidebook calls "another strange beast" to this menagerie. The Arthur M. Sackler Museum, to open in October, combines the bold orange and gray stripes of Memorial Hall with the proportions of Andrews' design school. But the Sackler's most startling feature is its aggressive mixture of historic motifs with raw industrialism. The slant-sided, flat-roofed entrance jutting into the street vaguely resembles the Lion Gate at Mycenae, but it is built of glass and metal and ! guarded by exhaust pipes with garishly painted air vents. Comments Harvard Graduate Student Michael Cornfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Brilliant Or Cursed By Apollo? | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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