Word: dines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Villa San Michele, just outside Florence, is a converted 15th century Franciscan monastery whose facade and grand loggia were designed by Michelangelo. Guests dine in the same refectory in which the ancient monks once broke bread. Its 32 rooms (all with private bath and telephone) run from about $17 to about $20 a day for full pension...
...reader who cares to classify the book's learned asides will have enough abstruse anecdotes and arcane folklore to dine out on for a season at least...
...Harvard system's view of women is a precise restatement of that held by the cloistered orders: women are objects of lust whose instrusion into a contemplative society destroys both tranquility and intellectual life. It follows that females should be barred not only from the bedroom, but from the dining halls. And most Masters regard allowing girls to dine in the Houses as just a special exceptions to the proper masculine atmosphere...
...that Harvard will actually enact more conservative rules, but that the response of the Masters to Radcliffe's growing liberalism and self-confidence will be reactionary rather than cooperative. And it is in these terms that one may understand the Masters' rejection of proposals to let girls dine in the Houses more frequently. The Masters are not ready to reject explicitly Mrs. Bunting's-and President Pusey's-claim that Radcliffe is a full member of the Harvard community, but they have given their answer...
First came the neorealist show. On opening night, the confused guests sat down on the armchair that was part of Jim Dine's painting called Four Rooms, and piled their champagne glasses into the porcelain sink (painted black) that is part of his lesser work, Black Bathroom No. 2. Two days later came a "lecture" by Modernist Composer John Cage, who accompanied his own voice with three tape recordings of his own voice, thus saying four different meaningless things at once. But that only led up to the climactic event, a happening called "Stars...