Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reunions have their good sides, however. Tonight the class of '64 will enjoy a night alone with the Boston Pops. The alums will not only have Symphony Hall to themselves, but Storrow Dr. will also be closed so Harvard buses can travel in tandem to the event. And when members...
Library officials say the reason the collection lies in closed stacks and does not circulate is not because of its licentious nature. Instead, they say, the works are hidden away to protect them from damage.
"The purpose of the designation, countrary to popular belief, is NOT censorship but preservation," according to an ancient document in the library's file on the "ubiquitous X" collection. Legend has it that the collection was started in the 1950s after a sociology professor found that the books on eroticism...
Another suggestion that has been offered to ameliorate library space shortage is to make Widener's stacks closed, leaving more room for books. But Feng says this is an unacceptable solution because a researcher's ability to browse the stacks is a valuable asset.
But while Deng subordinated ideology to the goal of "modernization," he did not downgrade the role or diffuse the power of the Communist Party. Quite the contrary; he has remained an absolutist in defense of the institution that Marx and Engels aptly called the "dictatorship of the proletariat." Farmers could...