Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Science Center Fountain finally took form. But with money enough to rebuild the quad dorms. Mike Blumenfeld gets a trip to Times Square, To handle some real renovations down there. And in Harvard Square, the gift has been given--Walkers can walk, cars can be driven. The subway construction they say is all done, But that's what they said back in Seventy-one. And closest to home, we wish Mr. Sandman, For Partrick Sorrento and Brain, our pressman. While upstairs amid all the business details. Tidy books for Liz, for Curtis fewer night mails...
Undergraduate Council Chairman Brian R. Melender '36 wants "an office somewhere besides Candy basement." The Cabot House resident would, if he were elected Santa, like to give a gift to the Radcliffe Quadrangle: "a new must fountain to achieve parity...
Drake says the tours have changed little since Conant's tenure (1936-52) except for the occasional addition of new landmarks. "There is great interest in that fountain," she says of the recently-installed rock fountain outside the Science Center...
...addition to the known or anticipated fruits of space exploration, there are the discoveries as yet unknown. Though past explorers often failed to find what they were looking for-the Fountain of Youth, a Northwest Passage-they often stumbled across wonders they never dreamed of, from precious stones to uncharted oceans. Says James Seevers, an astronomer at Chicago's Adler Planetarium: "Out of the atmosphere of earth, you have an utterly clear view of the planets and the stars and the galaxy. The entire universe is open to you. We've probably learned as much in the past...
Dadaism was originally a movement formed in Europe to protest the horrors of World War I, but it spread to America during the teens and the twenties where it outraged its contemporaries, much as The Sex Pistols did. A sculpture entitled "fountain," no more than a toilet seat hung by a nail, drew special condemnation for its vulgarity. Another work--a print of the "Mona Lisa" with a moustache drawn over the famous smile and the phrase "L. H. O. O. Q." under it--was roundly criticized for its irreverence. The phrase, roughly translated, means...