Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard is going to get back on an equal basis with the above-named schools, it is clear that our alumni are going to have to do something a little more concrete than complaining...
...show business. Yet that night club is currently initiating a complete musical revue, much like the Broadway product--and this in the same room where you can eat a wiener schnitzel and drink an African Zombie. At 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. the nitery's green-vested waiters clear the dessert dishes and fill the water glasses; the lights dim, and the stage at one end of the room becomes the center of interest for the next hour, as a group of young singers and dancers take over...
...obviously imperative that these two structures be demolished. Otherwise this clear and present danger to safety will continue to take its toll from hapless students and local residents. It should be pointed out that these buildings are antiquated and serve no useful purpose; that they could profitably be replaced by a non-obstructive memorial park or playground. There is no alternative--advocates of a traffic light for a corner should realize that lights cost upwards of 250 dollars apiece, and that this year's Cambridge allotment is ear-marked for installation in concentric rings surrounding the Harvard Square Circle--there...
...Clear Changes. Of Adriana's many men, three were especially destined to complicate her existence: a police official who loved her, a neurotic student whom she loved sincerely, and a murderer who got her pregnant. In a final blaze of violence all of them were wiped out of her life, but Adriana met terror, as she met all adversity, with a forthright philosophy: "I thought how [my baby] would be the child of a murderer and a prostitute; but any man in the world might happen to kill someone and any woman might sell herself for money; and what...
Novelist Moravia (who anomalously gives his unschooled protagonist his own clarity of thought and narration) has peppered The Woman of Rome with flashes of wisdom that seem like borrowed pearls as simple Adriana threads them: "We never get clear, definite changes in life; and those who do make hurried changes risk seeing their old habits come to the fore once again, still alive and as deep-rooted as ever." Those who want to read universal meanings into this couch-worn tale will have to do it at the level of amorality where only the Adrianas of the world can move...