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...Yale festivities include a freshmen skit which is seldom watched for more than two minutes at which point a shower of garbage--oranges, milk, eggs, bread, anything you can imagine--and a full-scale battle is waged...

Author: By Ian R. Condry, | Title: In a Word: Tradition | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

...recent council meeting, shelter staff and Cambridge residents testified that the homeless community is not a harmful one. As one woman--who advocated a shelter in her East Cambridge neighborhood, near the gourmet food store Bread and Circus--put it, "I've never been harrassed, threatened, or even intimidated by a homeless person, but I have been harrassed, threatened and intimidated by Bread and Circus customers...

Author: By Racheal H. Inker, | Title: Change the Shelter Law | 3/4/1986 | See Source »

...committee decided that the department's biggest problem was that it was weak in mainstream, bread-and-butter sociology. Mainstream sociology, which can be either statistically or historically based, includes organizational studies, social psychology, political sociology, and sophisticated mathematical modeling...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: Harvard Sociology: What Went Wrong? | 2/28/1986 | See Source »

...words but the physical shape and flow of thought. Some writers do not like to see so much of themselves on the page and prefer to objectify the words through a writing machine. Toad for a moment accused himself of sentimentalizing handwriting, as if it were home-baked bread or hand-cranked ice cream. He accused himself of erecting a cathedral of enthusiasm around his handicap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Scribble, Scribble, Eh, Mr. Toad? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...punishment cells, where all books were forbidden. While there he had no opportunity to lie down during the day, and at night a wood-and-metal board was put in his cell for sleeping. "Of course, there are no blankets and no warm clothes," he says. The menu: black bread one day, followed by a day of "very poor" hot food. "This went on for 30 and sometimes 40 consecutive days." While in isolation, he found chess a distraction. "I spent a lot of time analyzing chess positions. Of course, I can play the game in my head without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visit with a Survivor | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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