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LAST WEEK, the Walt Disney Corporation announced plans to construct five new theme amusement parks in various locations around the globe. In order to confer the greatest possible benefit on the world's population at large, I suggest that one of the new Disneylands be centered on the holy city of Jerusalem...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Dutch and Disney | 4/3/1986 | See Source »

...picture a pirate ride, in which scurvy Hassidic blackbeards unroll replicas of the ancient scrolls in search of buried treasure. For thrills and chills, the Wailing Wall would make an amazing house of horror, complete with slide-projection wraiths and plastic mummies. And for a big finale, one could construct and demolish the city of Jericho twice daily with high pitched sound and invisible lasers...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Dutch and Disney | 4/3/1986 | See Source »

...despite its many drawbacks, Love, Sex and the IRS can provide a relatively fun evening compared to most other possibilities on the Harvard entertainment horizon. Working without much foundation, the cast manages to construct an acceptable comedy; however, the whole performance needs major repairs if it is to be called true entertainment. If you're interested in something exciting, stay home. But if you'll settle for the merely average give it a shot. It might be a kind of play that appeals to the masses--mediocre to the core...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: IRS Fails to Tax Imagination | 3/15/1986 | See Source »

...Coalition Against Apartheid sought and wasdenied permission to construct shanties on thelawn near the heart of the East Cambridge campus,but proceeded anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protesters Build Shantytown at MIT Calling on Governing Body to Divest | 3/4/1986 | See Source »

Last week Adams House Co-Master Jana Kiely met with President Derek C. Bok to ask the university to join in a scheme to construct just that: low-and middle-income housing and a community center to be funded by the city, the Archdiocese of Boston, and--you guessed it--Harvard...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Put Substance Over Style | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

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