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...considering joining in. But all this "progress" is on a trial basis, and leaves eight Houses with no improvement at all in the near future. So here, in the vain hope that a House master or two might be reading, is one final effort to convey the blunt truth: the fact that a Harvard ID card does not allow a Harvard undergraduate access to other Harvard undergraduate Houses is probably the least rational, most infuriating policy at the College...
...size of Serra's pieces that holds you, though that is in itself impressive; rather, it's their blunt originality, a drama of spatial conception that seems quite new but is presented matter-of-factly. In Serra's view the most important change in 20th-century sculpture occurred when it ceased to be statuary, when it came down off its pedestal, the plinth that isolated it from the rest of the world, and entered the space, public or private, in which its audience lived and moved. Walking through these works--from outside to inside and back again...
Students were more blunt...
Officers work in pairs, sporting college-type clothes--usually jumpsuits that hide the traditional blunt-edged law enforcement equipment. One cop walks the isles of the store, while the other strolls around the outside of the building...
...share the same basic political values: moderation, a Western bent, a fervent embrace of peace. But as individuals, they are more disparate than kindred. While the King is a master of instinct, the prince is a bookish sort. Hussein is patient and given to indirection, Hassan restless, driven and blunt...