Word: bookshelf
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Upon this premise, Appel cantilevers the argument that "Yes" versus "No" is the primary aesthetic division of the 20th century. He outlines a hypothetical, prescriptive bookshelf spanning the range of 20th century art. The "No" shelf includes Kafka, T.S. Eliot, George Grosz and the pantheon of Pop art, which emphasize chaos and mass hysteria in the modern age and the mob of mankind. This is the "No" that is countered by the affirmative "Yes" of Matisse, Lachaise, Brancusi and Delaunay, Joyce, Nabokov and Chagall, along with "Yes" shelfmates W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Richard Wilbur...
When the Harvard Cooperative Society began in 1882, it occupied only a five-foot tall bookshelf in a tobacco store...
...last, proof that a product can be thoroughly '90s -- simple, ingenious and cost- and space-saving -- yet have nothing to do with biodegradability. Marco Pasanella has designed a handsome, amusing line of furniture in which each piece does double duty: an ottoman also serves as a bookshelf, a bench has built-in reading lamps, and on the seven-drawer bureau, the middle drawer pulls out to become a desktop...
...last, proof that a product can be thoroughly '90s -- simple, ingenious and cost- and space-saving -- yet have nothing to do with biodegradability. Marco Pasanella has designed a handsome, amusing line of furniture in which each piece does double duty: an ottoman also serves as a bookshelf, a bench has built-in reading lamps, and on the seven-drawer bureau, the middle drawer pulls out to become a desktop...
There are other minor inconveniences, such as the lack of bookshelf space and undraped windows, but these don't compare to the major problem with DeWolfe Street and any other overflow housing, which is that they detract from what Harvard so proudly boasts as one of its most positive aspects: the House experience. By living apart from the rest of our house, we miss out on the social experience our peers enjoy. All in all, I am very disappointed to be living DeWolfe. Ezra Perlman...