Word: closing
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...Loeb gave $1,000,000 for the future drama center; four months later Mr. and Mrs. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter, owners of pear orchards in Oregon, gave $1,500,000 to “completely underwrite a Harvard Visual Arts Center,” according to the Crimson. Close in date, the two gifts were also close in their intent—the Carpenters had originally wanted to donate to the theater until their son, Harlow Carpenter ’50, a graduate of the Graduate School of Design, convinced them to direct the money toward the visual arts...
...left-ward turn—feminism, the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements, and the sexual revolution—were nascent as ideologies.Students at Harvard during the late 50s consistently said that political engagement on campus was virtually nonexistent, with students expressing more concern over the closing of the popular bar Cronin’s to make room for the Holyoke Center than the absence of black students on campus, male-female segregation, or lingering anti-Semitism.But Marglin would make a drastic departure from the depoliticized environment of the late 50s to marry his economics with a radical brand of politics.A...
...desolate Kazakh plain behind. That rocket carried Sputnik, the first satellite launched into space, and the simple beeping signal it beamed back to Earth reverberated through radio receivers into the most distant halls of power, marking the beginning of the space race and sending U.S. policy makers scrambling to close the gap between the United States and Soviet Russia.Consequences of the Soviet launch would not, however, stay within Washington—the resulting effort to catch up to the Soviets would engage the nation and drag Harvard into an odd marriage of progressive initiatives and Cold War politics.The U.S. public...
...like fewer e-mails and shorter e-mails. And more pierogies.RR: What about an e-mail about pierogies?JSG: That would be fine. Scott T. Gregg ’11 RR: Pretend you’re a senior. What will you miss most about Harvard?SG: Probably my close friends.RR: I’m going to be President Faust and you be you. What would you like to say to me?SG: I’d give a suggestion. I know we’re getting a liberal arts education, but I think there could be more emphasis on guiding...
...Tiller found his life cause, according to a source close to his clinic, when the Wichita native's father was killed in a plane crash. He discovered that his father, also a doctor, had provided abortions. At the urging of his father's patients, the source said, Tiller let his general practice evolve into one focused on abortions. Many, if not most, providers stop performing abortions around 20 weeks; Tiller would extend past 24 weeks "in extreme cases of risks to the woman's life," the source said. "These patients were not simply women who waited too long to decide...