Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mather, Lowell and Currier Houses all have new Allston Burr senior tutors this year, and last year's acting senior tutor at Kirkland House has taken on the position on a regular basis...
Already, FAS has consolidated office space near the Harvard Union by converting a former freshperson dorm at 8 Prescott St. into offices for junior faculty in the English Department. Offices for the Literature and History and Literature concentrations are located next to the Union in Burr Hall...
...torturous restraining devices became a hook on which to say what it was like in personal terms. I knew about them because slaves who wrote about their lives mentioned them, and white people wrote about them. There's a wonderful diary of the Burr family in which he talks about his daily life and says, "Put the bit on Jenny today." He says that about 19 times in six months -- and he was presumably an enlightened slave owner. Slave-ship captains also wrote a lot of memoirs, so it's heavily documented...
GORE VIDAL'S BILLY THE KID (TNT, May 10, 8 p.m. EDT). Turns out he wasn't such a bad kid after all. The author of Burr and Lincoln re-examines the legendary Western outlaw (Val Kilmer) in a made-for-cable movie...
...area's most gorgeous homes, like those on Strivers' Row -- two blocks of houses (some designed by Stanford White) where ragtimers Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake lived. The homes of two earlier, more antagonistic Harlemites are open to the public: the Morris-Jumel mansion, once the home of Aaron Burr, and Hamilton Grange, the last abode of Alexander Hamilton. Near the Grange on still posh Sugar Hill is a quiet riot of Tudor and Romanesque residences that shelter the faculty of City University. Around the corner is Harlem's favorite archival trove, Aunt Len's Doll and Toy Museum, where...