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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But Van Valkenburgh said Harvard is not doing enough to preserve the character of the Yard. "There is a tremendous number of trees removed from the Yard, and only a small number put back," he said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dutch Elm Disease Strikes Yard Trees | 10/4/1989 | See Source »

Feigned compliance is the term used by Lucian Pye, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to describe such self-protective make-believe and the obedience it spawns. As a trait central to the Chinese character, feigned compliance has distinct Confucian roots, and Confucius is very much in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

IN Breathed's inflated mind, this must have looked like a good idea. Unfortunately, it looks horrible on paper. A little Black girl from the ghetto, Ronald Ann, is transported into an avante garde land of socially-conscious weird beings. Ronald Ann, who totes a headless doll, made appearances in...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

Willis does a wonderful job of portraying Emmett Smith the reclusive, cynical and alienated veteran of the Vietnam conflict. He brings a hard-edged intensity to an underwritten character who should have commanded more of In Country's focus. Richard Hamilton and Peggy Rea also lend a much needed sense...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: In Country: Out of Synch | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

But dissenting masters yesterday maintained positions from last year, coming out in defense of "distinctive" house character and masters' authority to decide the make-up of their own houses.

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Jewett Renews Call For Random Lottery | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

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