Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Chief of Police Paul Johnson said his force arrested Nathaniel Oliver, of 40 Mill Street in Boston, for the burglary. He said officers had answered a call from Oscar DelaRosa '90 of I-Entry, who said a stranger had entered his common room. Johnson said police stopped Oliver as he left A-Entry because he fit the description given by DelaRosa...
...called out because I thought the person was my roommate Steve, but when nobody answered and the noise stopped I realized something was wrong," he said. "When I went out to the common room there was a guy who obviously wasn't a college student standing there. I asked him what hewanted and he said 'Does Robert Stone live here?'When I said `No', he asked for a directory...
...competition, sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects, asks students to design a 12-family apartment complex with several common areas and a playground which would fit a real site in Roxbury. The contest is part of "The Search for Shelter," a nationwide project sponsored by the American Institute of Architects. Twenty to 30 similar competitions are being held simultaneously in cities nationwide...
There are actually few things less new than the "new history." Its arrival was announced at least as far back as 1912, by James Harvey Robinson, who declared that "trifling details" of dynastic wars must be displaced by the chronicle of the "common man," and that such chronicles should rely on the discoveries of "anthropologists, economists, psychologists, and sociologists." This arguable proposition has increasingly become the conventional wisdom of academia, taught in all the better universities to young armies of new historians, who dismiss most of the traditions of political and cultural history as elitist, impressionistic and irrelevant. History...
...first to feel the pain. Records fell to the stock-market floor last week like so much scrap paper. On Friday the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 100 points for the first time in history, dropping 108.36. In just one day, the value of 5,000 common U.S. stocks slid $145 billion, or 4.9%. "We're all stunned. Everything happened so fast," declared Byron Wien, portfolio strategist for the Morgan Stanley investment firm. Wall Street's computer-trading mechanisms, which brought so much efficiency to a rising market, were working just as efficiently in reverse. During the week...