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...sister to commit suicide. In Raspberry Jam, a little boy goes to tea with two old ladies, both of them drunks and one a nymphomaniac; they get him tipsy, and after telling him about an Italian lover she once bought, the nymphomaniac plucks and disembowels a live bullfinch under the child's eyes. So it goes on, to the last story, in which a male cocotte humiliates a middle-aged woman he dislikes by luring her husband back to the homosexuality he gave up after his marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surprise Around the Corner | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Representatives of the Alumni Committee for a Memorial Activities Center, a body of younger graduates which has led the campaign for the "utilitarian" memorial, are constantly working with Committee architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott and are assisting in evolution of the plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saltonstall Group Reconsiders Plan | 4/24/1948 | See Source »

April 15 was set by the group as the date for a final decision, with the architectural estimate to have been procured before then. Presumably, the estimate will come from the firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, whose representative, Henry R. Shepley '10, attended the meeting...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Saltonstall Committee Proposes New Mem Hall Activities Rooms and Theater, Church Tablet | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...features of the Center it envisioned. When the War Memorial Committee received the recommendation, in company with a then-swollen roster of some 34 possibilities ranging from expanded ROTC facilities to a Harvard Forest, the document went in toto for a financial estimate to University architects, Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott of 1 Court Street...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Three-Way War Memorial Recommendation Veils Near Coup for Plaque, Scholarship Fund | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

...date, the alert neophyte can learn a little about his environment--if he is skilled at assembling jig-saw puzzles. If he has time for the more thoughtful courses in history, literature, and the fine arts, he will not clude Sam Adams, nor West nor Bullfinch, nor the Mathers, nor Holmes, Thoreau and Emerson. If he leans toward economics, he will learn something about how New England makes its living. He may even get some visual education, as from the field trips which Professor Black promotes to the farms and forests of the region...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Integrating New England | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

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