Word: dover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind that philosophy, can music, embrace botany, magic, sculpture, mathematics and folklore belongs in the quattrocento, not in the Manhattan ware house district. But Hayward Cirker is content. The owlish founder and president of Dover Publications Inc. insists that he is precisely where he belongs. "I'm no Renaissance man," he maintains. "I'm just curious...
That curiosity is reflected in Dover's vast and idiosyncratic offering of paper backs. Readers who let their fingers do the walking through the Dover catalogue can choose from 2,000 oddities, including The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Three Prophetic Novels by H.G. Wells, Persian Miniature Painting, Complete String Quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven and Build Your Own Inexpensive Dollhouse. "And that's only a beginning," says Cirker...
...Dover, and perhaps new to contemporary readers. But old (and often ancient) by other standards...
...most part, Cambridge residents have dealt with Harvard on an issue-by-issue basis. The city is zoned for some commercial businesses, but whatever the zoning regulations are in the city, all academic institutions are not required to conform to the rules (courtesy of the 1975 state Dover Amendment). The last time Cambridge successfully confronted Harvard was in 1975, when Graham led her infamous crusade to halt construction of the Kennedy Library complex on the MBTA yards. City Councilor David Clem recalls this instance as the first time Harvard really lost a fight, but the issue was more complicated...
...Dover, Mass...