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Then an acquaintance suggested that Leventhal try a nearby field that was lying fallow. After bicycling to the site, Leventhal began to sweep the area with his detector. Soon the beep-beep in his earphones changed to a wail. Leventhal unsheathed his 8-in. scout knife, dug through the dry soil and unearthed a peculiarly shaped cylinder that he thought was just "another sewer pipe." Then the detector sounded off for another hit. More knife digging, and Leventhal was suddenly staring at what seemed to be curls on the back of a bronze head. He dug out the head, wrapped...
...sometimes seems to combine the four elements of the ancient world-earth, air, fire and water. The elements are not in their benign aspect, however, but viciously, terrifyingly distempered: earth as earthquake, air as hurricane, fire as holocaust and water as raging flood. What this production gives us is fallow earth, becalmed air, sputtering fire and stagnant water...
...endowment as of last June (more than twice the amount of the original gift), the interest of roughly $25,000 per year doesn't provide for the maximum salary of a full professor of the Faculty and for other costs incurred by the lectureship. Letting the principal lie fallow for a year seems to provide enough money for the present. But if expenses continue to rise, the Norton Chair of Poetry may suffer from even longer interludes between lectures. It seems that economic imperatives are constantly working against education, and especially against the humanities where the gains are intangible...
...producing enough low and moderate income housing to replace the hundreds of units that Harvard has taken off the market. And yet only 94 units of elderly housing on Mt. Auburn St, and the 116 units on Cambridge and Prospect Sts, were ever built, and the Cambridge Corp. lies fallow--killed during the worst housing shortage in the history of Cambridge, claiming that its duty was done...
Through coconut groves and brown, fallow rice fields, along muddy canals and traffic-clogged boulevards, millions of Thais made their way to tin-roofed voting pavilions last week in the country's first genuinely free election. If the 40% turnout was disappointing, there was still cause for cheer that the balloting went off as smoothly...