Word: greate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...born, really--you never knew what a pleasant world it was before then. After [World War II], and before all this trouble came, was the period when all of the forces were creative, and helping higher education. That's when the American universities, about 20 of them, became the great institutions in the world. It was a real joy to have been identified with...
...Harvard is just great," he says. "It righted itself; it just went through a troubled sea, with a lot of people in the ship that were making it go this way and that way. And that was just something that had to be lived through. We have lived through it, and it's gone. And I think sanity has come back...
...Great Catherine...
...Lowell JCR hosts two comedies this weekend, Tom Thumb and The Great Catherine. Tom Thumb is a parody of Elizabethan drama in which the finger-sized hero falls in love with King Arthur's little known daughter, Huncamunca. George Bernard Shaw's The Great Catherine parodies a stuffy British man's encounter with the nymphomaniacal Russian Empress. Both dramas are one-act plays that Bader and Thompson have set against colorful circus surroundings. These performances run through next weekend in Lowell House...
...series of watercolors that follows the European kings' portraits shows the influence Western Europe had on this Eurasian art. While a great many of the geometric patterns and bright colors which distinguish Islamic art are still present, it is evident through the number of scenes of daily life that the Ottoman world's contact with Europe had influenced its culture. Although many of the watercolors do accompany religious texts, they show scenes of bridal gowns, gardeners and poets as well as spiritual situations...