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Later in the evening, Kalar traded harsh words with City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci. The former Cambridge mayor asked whether Kalar's proposal that shelters for the homeless be constructed in every part of the city extended to putting one "in the middle of Brattle Street...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: City Councilors Hosted At Town-Gown Dinner | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

...audience. The drama lies in the confrontation between the acoustic and the amplified instruments. Ghostly trills float above rumbling repeated figures, brasses punch out long discordant lines, and the shimmering whoosh of woodwinds fills the air. Repons is a journey into the soul of the 20th century, a harsh but exhilarating blend of music and machine. Its only flaw is that it does not go far enough. In 1981, when Boulez premiered the first 18 minutes of the work, the technology was still largely untried. What Repons needs now is to live up even better to its name, to offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pierre Boulez: The Soul of a New Machine | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...fire prank incident at Leverett House and its subsequent presentation to the Ad Board, I have come to be seriously disillusioned with the disciplinary system at Harvard. The Ad Board appears to be a mockery of justice in a number of ways, and its findings tend to be extremely harsh and arbitrary, much more so than at other schools...

Author: By Michael L. Goldenberg, | Title: Ad Board Wrong in the Leverett Case | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

...case of my three friends upstairs, although their sentences were less harsh, is even more disturbing to me. They were all put on disciplinary probation, placing a permanent mar on their record. For what? They "pennied" out our door so that we could not open it, and stood by ready to dump water on us when we managed to get out. Friendly and fun, as before. Yet the Ad Board found that this action was sufficiently dangerous to deserve probation for all involved. Had we urgently needed to get out, they were right there, ready to open the door. They...

Author: By Michael L. Goldenberg, | Title: Ad Board Wrong in the Leverett Case | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

McLaughlin, previously a successful businessman, had no prior experience in academia before he became president in 1981. Although almost universally praised for his ability to increase the college's endowment, the president's handling of the current campus strife has generated harsh criticism from all fronts...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Dartmouth's Carnival of Protest | 2/12/1986 | See Source »

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