Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bulldozing the house at 21 Sacramento Street Harvard destroyed, not only a building and a garden, but part of the community goodwill the University claims it wishes to build. Harvard states this was not meant as retaliation, but how else can the Agassiz Community interpret the timing, the failure to notify the community in advance, and the brutal nature of the razing which left as an eyesore what was the most attractive garden in the area. The blackberry bushes, the raspberry bushes, the grape vines, the flowering vines, the pear tree--all have been flattened in an apparent scorched earth...
...Harvard take out the demolition permit late on Tuesday and destroy the house early on Wednesday if not to prevent Community action? The University knew that the Community, the Planning Board and the Historical Society all wished to save that wonderful old house. And why flatten the garden? When the University razed the building at 11 Sacramento Street it at least left a few trees standing. Now the block looks like a bruised fighter who has lost his front teeth. Could the University have an interest in reducing the attractiveness as a place to live and in lowering property values...
...icemen, hoping to avenge that 7-4 humiliation, head to Cambridge after sweeping the ECAC Holiday Hockey Festival held last weekend in New York's Madison Square Garden. Cornell posted a 10-7 win over Boston College and a 7-4 victory over St. Lawrence...
...Hitler's official filmmaker Leni Reifenstahl made this of the 1934 Nuremberg Party Rally, before she made the '36 Olympic films. The Welles is billing it as "the movie that made Adolph Hitler a star!" Worth seeing, but not recommended if you were among the L.Z. crowd at the Garden Monday night...
...against some cataclysmic disaster such as a devastating war or total economic collapse. The world's champion hoarders are the French, who have learned through bitter experience-two centuries of ruinous wars, revolutions and often drastic currency devaluations-that a few kilos of gold buried in a flower garden are sometimes the only insurance against personal financial disaster. Almost half of the entire 8,900 tons of gold held privately in Europe is in France. Today's French goldbug, says Paris Financial Editor René Sedillot, "is apt to be a peasant or a workingman, not a sophisticated...