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...quickie shops, whose advent has been successfully forestalled in Harvard Square--including Dunkin' Donuts, which was denied permission to open a branch in Harvard Square two years ago--flourish in Central Square. By and large, the owners of the more marginal junk-food shops have remained out of Smith's organization. And Lane, whose tenant group is avowedly committed to bringing in still more junk food operations, pleads, "Get us a Jewish bakery, please...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: There's more to Cambridge than Harvard Square | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...incomprehensible distances, intimidating mathematics and names like Triangulum Australe, the temptation is to do one's stargazing on the Tonight show. But the attraction to heavenly bodies persists. In an age when science and philosophy dress in basic black, colorful beliefs about the personal influence of the stars flourish-particularly in a specialized union of pseudo scholarship and science fiction that could be called fiction science. Like astrology or its medieval cousin alchemy, fiction science tries to explain the unknown through a system of symbolic beliefs-a kind of mythology purportedly based on scientific reason. Like religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worlds in Collusion | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

David N. Hollander '71, former president of The Crimson, concedes that many people probably can't remember the six demands of the 1969 strike, but that the basic ideas behind the demands still flourish. "People still think that Harvard shouldn't eat up Cambridge and drive the workers out. We had an anti-capitalist feeling on a small scale," Hollander said...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Class of '71 Views 60's Turmoil As Positive, Mind-Opening Era | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...then in a parting flourish, the M.E. declared, "Remember, truth and justice will triumph over...

Author: By Clark Mason, | Title: Abe Rosenthal: His Life and Times | 5/26/1976 | See Source »

...Teachers who are artists rather than academics will never feel able to flourish in an academic environment unless they are given the support of their colleagues," the source added...

Author: By Melinda B. Faier, | Title: Zander Quits Music Dept.; Sources Point to Conflict | 4/14/1976 | See Source »

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