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There is a certain charm in how an evening can turn out just right. Three Harvard student bands played for a carefree crowd in the Eliot House courtyard on Monday night. It was the kind of event that is only possible in those awkward and wonderful days before classes begin. A beautiful late summer evening, together with the promise of some of the most engaging musical talent on campus drew people from all different houses. The whimsical green of the Eliot House tower was illuminated from behind the courtyard. Below it, part of the courtyard was illuminated from the ground...
...died, “We were sitting drinking!” Not quite the right words, but certainly an apt description. Such an indiscretion never would have happened if the Eliot House bands had somehow ended up playing Memorial Church. Those lucky enough to have spent time in Eliot courtyard that night should thank the dean who wouldn’t allow...
...logic that you get the impression that the same thing could happen to you tomorrow." In The Man Who Knew Too Much, the murder coincides with a cymbal clash during a night at the symphony; in Rear Window Jimmy Stewart suspects that a murder has taken place across the courtyard from his own home - extraordinary events in ordinary settings...
...Times woken up during Sunday nap by firecrackers set off ritualistically in courtyard of hotel...
...monks are back, however. Novices are again memorizing texts and scriptures, and their playful giggles are once more heard in the courtyard?we stood in silence, but then laughter erupts from one corner as a group of monks who had locked themselves out of the kitchen heave the smallest boy onto their shoulders to wiggle through an open window and unlock the door from the inside. Senior monks, too, have returned to their retreats, spending days, months and years in dark solitude, sustained only by food slipped into their cold rooms. Unlike the Summer Palace in Lhasa, where...