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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riots. Extortion had paid for it all. "There may well have been contemporaries of Jean de Berry," wrote Millard Meiss, "who maintained that he cared more for animals and for art than for men." They may well have been right. Jean de Berry once gave a hound a life pension, but he taxed his subjects so fiercely that they rioted. Worse, from the aspect of practical politics, he chose the wrong faction in the struggles for the French throne, so his house in Paris was sacked by a furious mob in 1411, and one of his châteaux, stuffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Images of Paradise | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

...Hound of the Baskervilles, Fri., Sat., Sun., March 24, 25, 26, at 8 and 10 p.m., Quincy Dining Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 3/23/1972 | See Source »

...endeavor to import significant bluesmen from the hinterlands has been the loving labor of the Boston Blues. Society, a non-profit organization of dedicated blues connoisseurs. In collaboration with WHRB, they have scheduled a series of superb concerts here at Harvard; with the exception of the Hound Dog Taylor concert at Winthrop House, however, these events have been curiously ignored by Harvard students. If you've been waiting for the right opportunity to investigate these affairs, you should not ignore the Otis Rush concert in the Leverett House dining room at 8:30 pm this Sunday. Best known...

Author: By Charles Allan, | Title: Blues in a Bottle | 3/9/1972 | See Source »

...fashionably exotic pad near Soho, under the offices of Twiggy Enterprises. In his living room he has draped 300 yds. of hand-blocked Indian fabric to form a giant tent. Beneath the tent are something like 100 cushions for visitors and Justin's small menagerie: a huge Afghan hound named Zaradin, two Persian cats called Buttercup and Jemima and a "plain" cat called Pansy. Twiggy stays for dinner perhaps four nights a week, and Franco, Justin's Italian chef, whips up a meatless pasta for her mostly vegetarian diet. She eats fish, but no meat. Most of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The English Dream | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...chapter in history. We are indebted to him and the other members of the Boston Blues Society for their efforts to bring us surviving members of a dying breed of bluesmen. They brought Johnny Shines to the Harvard Freshman Union recently, and on Sunday, December 12, they're bringing Hound Dog Taylor to the Winthrop House Dining Room. If you are a blues lover, you will be there. If you are merely flirting with the blues, but a little shy, Feel Like Going Home will point you in the right direction and give you a push...

Author: By Charlie Allen, | Title: True Blues | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

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