Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persuasive story, and almost every reviewer praised Speer for his contrition and basic decency. Unfortunately, the story didn't bear up too well under closer scrutiny. Speer's account diverged sharply from the facts in several places and from believability at others--the accolades of many critics notwithstanding. Speer was in fact a dedicated Nazi, who had joined Himmler's Storm Troopers in 1931 and the S.S. a year later. He never opposed such things as the Scorched Earth Policy on moral grounds; his main concern was that all that fine machinery be preserved. Though it receives little attention...
...Take a closer look at the eight wins which Harvard's basketball team managed to rack up this year, and you'll find that the season was every bit as bad as a .308 winning percentage suggests...
...make costumes. If a dancer's costume pulls or sags in the crotch, he can tell the seamstress that he has to have a gusset. Eventually, Mitchell hopes to add a full-scale drama department, art-history classes, a theater and dormitories. Yet even now, D.T.H. comes closer than any other American dance institution to a Russian conservatory like the Bolshoi or the Kirov...
...Quad's closer than either Eliot or Mather to the Science Center, to William James, to the Loeb, and to the Radcliffe and Hemenway gyms. Even prestigious Lowell is only 18% closer to the Science Center than the Quad is. For this price of 18% you get to live in a whole different Harvard community...
...have found that out. You can still socialize at the Square if you live hzre, but you have a retreat from the noise, the crowding, and the city when you want it... I also enjoy the more life-like sex ratio. After all, the real world is much closer to 1:1 than...