Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Book Store (1256 Mass. Ave.) stays open until 10 p.m. every night except Sunday. It carries new titles you won't find in shopping mall book stores and used books at half price downstairs. For more mainstream new books there's the Paperback Booksmith (25 Brattle St.) It welcomes browsers until midnight every day of the week. Reading International (47 Brattle St.) is also for late-night shoppers and offers a huge selection of magazines and a mixture of popular and scholarly titles. Wordsworth (30 Brattle St.) rounds off the Square's general reading book shops...
While they may not be akin to regular Harvard courses (except maybe Oscar Handlin's History 1958, which describes the role of TV in modern American life), courses like VISU S-196: The Horror Film, and PSYC S-1470: Psychopathology, seem to be courses perfect for attending on lazy summer afternoons. An interesting and unusual topic is what a summer school course should be all about...
What finds favor here is young, loud and, except in its careerism, invincibly dumb. It wants to be winsomely outrageous as a form of ingratiation. Its mood is claustrophobic because its sense of history (i.e., anything that happened before Warhol, except for kitsch surrealism...
...work harder. That did not turn out to be the case. Another assumption was that blacks and whites would learn positive things from each other and, as a result, take each other more seriously. The fact is, under integration, too many whites still find no value in black culture except music, the ability to dance and perform athletically...
...believe my eyes," the 118-lb., 5-ft. 5-in. Cauthen recalled later. "I couldn't see the others, but Slip Anchor wasn't going flat out. From then, it was simply a matter of keeping the horse straight." Cauthen was saluted for a jolly good show by all except the British bookies. Offering 9- to-4 odds despite a crush of Cauthen bettors, they stood to get trampled for at least $13 million...