Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spend your summer popping in and out, looking to see what's new in the literary world, and generally feeling very up-to-date on things. These books, of course, go for the full market price, as do most of the others in the store, which range from classic Dostoevsky and James Joyce to a fairly comprehensive collection of political and historical books. The Harvard Bookstore is a must for every Cambridge intellectual, whether of the full-time or summer scholar folk...
...Auburn St. You win. This is without argument the home of the best fast food in the Square: thick, reasonably-priced sandwiches that make you wonder why you ever put up with Mom's lousy cooking. The Turkey Deluxe (T.D., for the football fans out there) is a classic, and the hot pastrami and cheese ranks up there with motherhood and the flag as something worth fighting for. The decor is, in a word, crummy (in two words, very crummy), but you can go somewhere else to digest, right? Two warnings: stay away from the place at lunchtime, when...
...acquire a strange permanence-or its illusion, which is of course just as good. They have been transported into another medium where information and images are permanently (or for years, anyway) stored. In the formula of Historian Daniel Boorstin, they have "become well known for being well known." A classic of the category is, say, Elizabeth Taylor. Who, outside of her family and friends, would have the slightest interest in her were she not phosphorescent in her sheer famousness...
...legendary Vaslav Nijinsky; in London. Karsavina first danced with the Maryinsky (now the Kirov) Ballet, then joined Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes for their first Paris season in 1909. A dancer of great beauty who made her every gesture expressive, she was often contrasted with her more classical colleague, Anna Pavlova. After the Russian Revolution she fled to England, where she became the country's best-loved dancer, appearing as a guest artist through the 1920s. She later worked with English Choreographer Frederick Ashton, advised Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, and wrote an eloquent autobiography (Theatre Street) that stands...
...freshman year is a unique experience in University life, and in part an underlying reason for the Fox Plan. "You can make a list of the stresses of freshman year and they all add up to what George Goethals calls the 'crisis of adolescence,'" Moses says, pointing out the classic case of the freshman who leaves home, where he has succeeded at everything he has tried, and finds great difficulty dealing with freedom and with academic and social demands...