Word: gift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Upper Story is not an art gallery, a coffee house, or a bargain bookstore. Whatever esoteric appeal the gift shop had while situated on an upper story was lost when it moved to a street-level, plate-glass window site on Church Street. According to Mrs. Howe, who runs The Upper Story with her husband, "We're eight years old, actually, and I guess you might say we've grown right along with Harvard Square. We were located on the second floor in that little alleyway where the Coop bookstore is. We were the first of several second floor shops...
...spell he cannot validate a vision. It matters less that noisomely misanthropic symbols keep recurring in his work than that they nowhere seem purgative. With Swiftian ferocity he reveals a Swiftian tormented-ness; and as with Swift, however much he retches, he cannot disgorge.* More culpably, Williams' gift for theatricalism makes the how of Suddenly Last Summer devour the why, turns the horrifying means into an end in itself...
Donations from the Widener family totaling $700,000 have been received for the endowment of Widener Library, President Pusey announced yesterday. This is the first gift to the University designated specifically for Library...
...irrigation schemes and low-cost loans to farmers. The catch is that the caliber of the goods is so low-the cement takes twice as long as it should to harden-that even Cambodia's impoverished citizens shun them. Says one Cambodian government spokesman: "I have heard about gift horses, but this one is really an old nag." Last year's U.S. aid to Cambodia: $35 million -part of it for a modern highway and construction of a deep-water port on the Gulf of Thailand...
...exhibition is made possible by a gift of Mrs. Alfred M. Tozzer. Her donation provides for new display cases as well as laboratory space for the study of the ancient materials...