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Sources said this week that the environmental impact study of the John F. Kennedy Library--still in the hands of government officials--may mean the end of plans to construct the project in Cambridge...
Emerson ignored too much when he wrote, "There is properly no history; only biography." Nonetheless, it is true that there is no history without biography. We construct theories of historical movements and trends that too often have a dangerous neatness about them. These reconstructions, though they pretend to an archeological authenticity, reveal at least as much about the time in which they are written as about the culture or events they are attempting to explain...
...council also postponed for two weeks a vote on down-zoning a section of the Agassiz neighborhood in which Harvard plans someday to construct dormitories for married students and faculty...
City Planning Director Bowyer said undergraduate Houses the University might construct in the vicinity of Mather and Dunster House should be "lower-scale town houses along the lines of Quincy House...
...enervated, written on a lower energy level. Perhaps the softening for Auden thanks numbed his perceptions and dulled his creative powers. Although Auden was only 66 when he died last September, he was clearly not a man who expected to live much longer. Many of his last poems construct a "neutral" position indifferent to life and death...