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Library Loot Lifted: Someone unlocked a Lamont Library filing cabinet and took $30 from an unlocked petty cash box in a drawer sometime between last Saturday and Monday, police were told...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain, | Title: Dana Palmer Burglary Suspect Held in Middlesex County Jail | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

...those people who writes and sticks it in the drawer," says Hilary Putnam, Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic. Partially because of the penchant for secrecy, colleagues say, his beliefs about philosophy are highly controversial and not entirely accepted in philosophy departments around the country...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: 'A Socratic Gadfly' | 4/18/1984 | See Source »

...myth-haunted Gaelic songs, the discovery of a 1,000-year-old man buried in peat. For Heaney, objects always cast a long shadow: the observation of a skunk, of all animals, brings on a longing for his absent wife: "Your head-down, tail-up hunt in a bottom drawer/ For the black plunge-line nightdress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Singing of Skunks and Saints | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Library Larcenies: A female victim told police that someone took $34 from her pocketbook in a desk drawer in the Schlesinger Library Monday between 9 a.m. and noon. A handbag sitting near a desk with $8 in cash inside was reported stolen from the same library between 9 and 11 a.m. Wednesday...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain, | Title: Police Blotter | 2/11/1984 | See Source »

...artist would have to study either in Düsseldorf or, more likely, in Paris. It is true that some very good American art of this period could not plausibly have been done elsewhere; for example, John Haberle's trompe-l'oeil painting A Bachelor's Drawer, 1890-94, with its laconically joky collection of mementos signifying the past lusts and present debts of a minor artist's life. Yet for every apparent isolate like Homer, there were a dozen Americans beavering away in the teaching studios of Paris, especially those run by Jean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manifest Destiny in Paint | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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