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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boredom to Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Godot. Cantor's penchant for citing his predecessors aggravates the problem. He quotes Norman O. Brown on Hegel in reference to Beckett's plays to bolster his own assertion, not explained further, that "time is negativity"; he quotes Frederic Jameson on Ernst Block on Marxism. Two comments on Beckett are separated by the sentence, "Krazy Kat hopes that someday Ignatz Mouse will love her (him); much ingenuity must be used in reinterpreting the meaning of the brick that conks her on the head." It all has something to do with nihilism, clearly...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Beyond History and Lit | 3/13/1982 | See Source »

Cambridge, Brockton and state police arrested a second suspect in Brockton last Monday in connection with last week's murder of Carl F. Loebig, a Harvard employee who was stabbed to death in his apartment, one block from the Freshman Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track . . . | 3/13/1982 | See Source »

Students at both schools have mailed hundreds of form letters, as well as personal messages, to representatives and senators, asking the legislators to block a Reagon Administration plan to eliminate special low-interest loans for graduate and professional students...

Author: By Lean D. Rush, | Title: Grad School Students Protest Proposed Federal Loan Cuts | 3/12/1982 | See Source »

...tenants' union has had limited success in representing residents of University apartments. With about 40 highly active members and several hundred who have indicated some support. HTU has managed to foster a greater awareness of tenants' rights. The key stumbling block to further progress has been HRE's staunch refusal to recognize the union as legitimate representative of even some of its tenants. In a recent letter to HTU Coordinator Michael Turk. Zeckhauser stated that "it is the policy of Harvard Real Estate. Inc to respond to specific complaints and suggestions from specific tenants about their individual units and building...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Heads May Roll | 3/12/1982 | See Source »

Cambridge, Brockton and state police arrested a second suspect in Brockton Monday night in connection with the murder of Carl F. Loebig, a Harvard employee who was stabbed to death last week in his apartment, one block from the Freshman Union...

Author: By Donald N. Sull, | Title: Second Man Arrested in Local Death | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

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