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EDMUND A. WHITMAN, in "Town and Gown," boasted of the good relations between the college and the town. Although the time when Commencement Day was "a holiday throughout the province when the shops of Boston were generally closed and the proprietors repaired to the Cambridge common, which was completely taken possession of by drinking stands, dancing booths, mountebank shows and gaming tables," he could still write that "in Cambridge the college has always been deferential to the town authorities...
...years ago when President Kennedy was still in office. Since the 1965 invitation by City Council to build the library in Cambridge, many changes in the tenor of urban life have altered the city's priorities. These have been years of race problems, rent control, increased welfare demands, town-gown antagonism, urgent need for low-and medium-income housing, crime, dwindling tax rolls, congestion and pollution...
BEING A FRESHMAN and frightened, I did not think to be offended. In an infirmary bed and gown, reeking of mono, I was grateful for the place to rest and willing to answer any questions. The doctor came in my room--it was the first time I had seen him--holding my folder in his hand. "I see from your file that you are a Catholic," he said, "Does that disrupt your sex life here at Harvard? Maybe you'd like to tell me what's really bothering...
...week over a salute to her career at Henri Langlois' hallowed Cinémathèque Française. The first night coincided with Gloria's 75th birthday, a statistic proved ridiculous when she appeared at the birthday party in a slinky blue and green diagonally striped gown. After blowing out the candles on her cake, Chicago-born Swanson told the crowd assembled at the cinema museum that she had always felt at home in France. Why? "Because with my Swedish ancestors I surely have a little French blood in my veins," said Gloria mystifyingly...
...intend to document, just coax an emotional response. She did a series on motherhood, in which titles were appended as interpretations. For example, "Blessed Art Thou Among Women," and "The War Widow." The latter depicts a lank, forlorn woman with a child raised against her shoulder, her flat white gown leaping from deep shadow...