Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, Princess Ida's unweildy structure seems virtually incapable of getting off the ground. But a series of outstanding secondary characters provides the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players' production with much needed levity and sparkle. The show is no Concorde, but it does manage...
...Cook begins his tenure, his major goals are already approaching fruition. The arboretum is finding its place as both a resource center for scholars, and a learning ground for the young. The garden just may yield a bumper crop one day soon...
...ground it is much the same at first. Behind the hard eyes of a young passport officer lurk the ghosts of his country's history: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Lenin, Stalin and all those they once ruled, the entire tragic parade of persecutors and persecuted. And when the officer finally grunts his assent and one is readmitted to the Soviet sanctum, one still imagines great steel doors clanging shut...
...come to the conclusion that the Soviet system is made up of massive, heavy blocks. It is well suited to the suppression of human freedom, but not to revealing, nourishing and stimulating it. On the whole, it resembles an Egyptian pyramid built out of colossal stones, carefully assembled and ground to fit together. A mass of dead stone, an impressive monumentality of construction, which once served majestic ends now beyond our reach, a huge structure with such a modicum of useful space inside. Inside -- the mummy, Lenin. Outside -- the wind of the desert. Sand. That's the image...
...Russian intellectual, by his very nature a liberal and a democrat, is arrayed against the Russian nationalist, who is always trying to trample into the ground what the democrats...