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Weld Hall's reputation as the center of Harvard's occult has been revived by the sighting of a ghost in one of its rooms...
Theresa M. McCarthy '89 didn't get a chance to see the ghost since she was sitting with her back to the mysterious woman, but she agreed with Wong's account of the night. "It was a really mellow atmosphere. Audris suddenly stopped the conversation and told us, in a calm voice, that the ghost was there...
...Charles Darwin observed the variety of species that inspired his theories of natural selection. But according to Vonnegut, nature goofed: Homo sapiens' highly developed cerebral lobes were responsible for the world's troubles. Thinking generated opinions, rationalizations and a peculiar sense of pleasure from cruelty. Says Leon the friendly ghost: "This was a very innocent planet, except for those great big brains...
...best plays of Eugene O'Neill and John Osborne, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter, wherever anger scalds and language blisters, the ghost of this strange, contradictory figure hovers in the wings. The demons he unleashed from his bedroom still wander through films and fiction today. As a young man, Strindberg wrote his manifesto: "No spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits." Here stands the classic confession of the artist as terrorist--not a nice man, but very much our contemporary...
...find out what it is like to live in the same neighborhood with toxic wastes, Associate Editor Kurt Andersen visited three communities with similar concerns but profoundly different circumstances. Times Beach, contaminated years ago, is now a Missouri ghost town; Holbrook, Mass., is discovering that it has a serious problem, but perhaps not a catastrophe; in Casmalia, Calif., toxins arrive each day at a modern treatment site, producing annoying fumes and fears about the future. People from all three places share chronic anxiety. Are they sick? Will they become sick? In all three there is anger, at businesses, at government...