Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Press display room in Holyoke Center looks like your average strip mall bookstore--clean, quiet, well stocked with the latest offerings. But the process a book goes through to get the official stamp of Harvard University is vastly different than in a commercial enterprise...
Harvard students do get the convenience of theHolyoke Center display room, where damaged booksare sold for rock-bottom prices...
April J. Werner and Ben Bergstein, vendors from the Volga River Trading Company, sold products from Russia, Armenia and other eastern European countries. They had a large display of wooden nestling dolls called matryoshka, meaning "little mother" in Russian. They have been selling their products at the bazaar for four years...
Every December, when the "winter" decorations go up, I am astonished. We attend an institution where concerned students were able to convince administrators that the word "freshman" was pernicious. How is it that those same administrators can't understand that the House-sponsored display of symbols celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, isn't similarly problematic...
...fate of Los Angeles is a novelty. It's Saturday at the Parthenon and we noble citizens look on as it flashes gory in the sun, our own little Exodus replete with earthquake, fire, flood and riot: tantalizingly apocalyptic. Among the expatriate Angelenos, there might be swaggering or display of battle wounds, an anecdote about the aunt whose Malibu home slid seaward. But the real L.A. is far away, and so is 1992, the year of the riots. Not old enough for an anniversary, the remains lie unexcavated in the rubble of more recent crises. So at Harvard...