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Romance: "Stella!" (A Streetcar Named Desire); Runner-Up: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" (Gone With the Wind...
James Joyce: 140 characters? A sentence of such fractured length would have barely begun to scratch at the surface of man's vain, insignificant - James Joyce: Damn...
...that's not what happened when one of them went awry on Oct. 7 and began sending erroneous data spikes on the plane's angle of attack (AOA) - the angle between its wings and the air flowing over them - to the flight-control computer. "For some reason, the damn computer disregarded the healthy channels," says Hans Weber, an aviation expert who heads Tecop International, an aviation-consulting firm in San Diego. "Instead, it acted upon the information from the rogue channel." The computer, responding to the faulty data, put the plane into a dive. (Read "Is There a Cause...
...become the conceited house in 1959,” said Gordon. An October 12, 1959 correspondence between Gordon and his parents captures his sentiments towards his new residence. “I’m not talking about the spirits we drank—the ‘God-damn-if-Harvard-isn’t-the-best-place-in-the-whole-world-and-Quincy-House-in-particular’ spirit,” Gordon wrote. In both blueprints and character, Quincy House distinguished itself from the traditions etched in the walls of its ivy-clad counterparts. HIGH-RISE REALITYPrior...
...Harvard theater was thriving when the Loeb took the stage. “There was theater all over the place and it was pretty damn good,” said Arthur L. Kopit ’59, a playwright and Tony Award winner. Fourty-five plays had been performed in 1957 alone, productions ranging from student-written work to Shakespeare. Professional critics frequently visited from Boston to comment on current productions...