Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Center for International Affairs has to leave its present home so the Semitic Museum can fully move in. The CfIA and several other international studies programs are moving into 1737 Cambridge...
MADRID -- A bomb planted by a terrorist organization exploded yesterday on the first floor of the U.S. Cultural Center in Madrid hours before Vice President Walter F. Mondale was scheduled to arrive to meet with Spanish leaders...
This MIT sophomore is now dreaming daily at the Carpenter Center for the general public. Admission is free. He sleeps behind a glass panel, under satin sheets that a sign says are designed to "conceal and reveal" his sleeping form. Viewers are asked to remove their shoes before they enter--the floor is spongy and feels dreamy to walk on. The sleeping subject behind the glass has his brain and body activity constantly monitored, and readings are displayed on a large screen next to him. He is the highlight of the exhibit--a real sleeper...
...written a slight book. He succeeds in counteracting the popular supposition that the medieval period was excessively religious and dull. As he demonstrates, the age was worldly, tumultuous and as bloody as could be wished. And Chaucer, who was born in about 1340, spent his life at the center of the commotion...
...finds that all is "not quite right." Why, puzzles Birmingham, should the aristocratic wife of Washington's black mayor "satisfy herself with plastic plants in her house and settle for brightly colored glass ceiling fixtures"? Why does a Harlem socialite place a huge Steuben glass bowl in the center of her coffee table and fill it with gold-painted walnuts? Why, he asks, do so many blacks drink Kool-Aid and smoke Kool cigarettes? Birmingham's answers are even more idiosyncratic than his questions. He theorizes that "the associations of the words Kool and cool...