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...Among the 1,103 Monty Python items up for bid last week on eBay were these ephemera inspired by the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: talking action figures of King Arthur, sirs Bedevere and Robin and girlie-man Prince Herbert; Grim Reaper and killer Rabbit plush toys; "Holy Hand Grenade" and "French fart" T shirts; Black Knight "It's just a flesh wound" boxer shorts; and tickets to Spamalot, the hit musical that Eric Idle (and co-composer John Du Prez) confected from MP&HG nearly 30 years later...
...complain of that awful dystopia where the “names and dates [of historical events] were chiseled in stone.” This attitude is chief among the reasons why undergraduates are so devoid of a broad historical narrative in which to situate the little nuggets of ephemera they receive from the hodgepodge of Harvard history classes. It’s this condition that makes History 10a’s mission is more vital today than ever before...
...reveal the hidden essence of a thing, but they can also conceal it. That is an insight the reader will arrive at long before Whitehead's protagonist does (you may possibly be aware of it before opening the book). In the meantime he mopes around town riffing on the ephemera of small-town America and indulging his obsession with brand names. The tone is light, by turns over- and underwritten. Our hero seems as uninterested in his fate...
...correspondence. An old orange couch sits in the corner. It looks suspiciously as if it’s also served as a bed.Marshall himself, a polymath with sensibilities far from the commercial mainstream, recalls a dying Square culture shaped by personal ingenuity and happenstance. His world of books and ephemera overlaps with the University’s, but today, he says, their relationship is less symbiotic than it once was.BUYING INTO THE MARKETWhen Marshall, who grew up in nearby Lynn, Mass., first came to Harvard Square in 1970, it was filled with orange Hare Krishna robes and student protests against...
...Marotta has also made what he refers to as “canned specimens”—leaves, pinecones, and other ephemera from the site sealed in the sort of jars one might expect to hold jam. He plans to do a series of large-scale drawings of the containers in which they take on what he calls “alien” proportions...