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Word: jana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those quixotic Cantabrigians is Jana Kiely, co-master of Adams House and a woman who thinks the plot of land close to the river's edge can be put to more noble use than profit-making...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: The Lady And Her Lot | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

Last week Adams House Co-Master Jana Kiely met with President Derek C. Bok to ask the university to join in a scheme to construct just that: low-and middle-income housing and a community center to be funded by the city, the Archdiocese of Boston, and--you guessed it--Harvard...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Put Substance Over Style | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

...Holiday Season Special Effects Oscar goes to the Adams House Teas. Normally pretty sedate affairs, held every other Friday from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Masters Robert and Jana Kiely's house in the courtyard of Randolph Hall, the tea rouses itself from cultured calm whenever it tally on a holiday. The St. Patrick's day tea, which has included cases of Guinness and poetry readings by resident Bard Seamus Heaney, gets the biggest kudos. On ordinary Fridays, however, the Adams teas are the first choice for people after cucumber sandwiches and quiet conversation...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Tea, Guacomole: Masters' Open Houses | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

...fears that a chance to reopen negotiations is slipping away, and in part because he reasoned that a re-elected Reagan would be more willing to risk an initiative that might offend American supporters of Israel. His miscalculation drew the expectable jeers from radical Arabs: the Libyan news agency JANA scoffed that his reception in Washington had lowered Mubarak "to his natural position as an employee of the U.S. State Department." Reagan sought to soften the blow by lavishing praise on Mubarak's peace efforts, but the Egyptian President charged in a speech to the National Press Club that Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead - Make My Day | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...Seifert was in the hospital suffering from diabetes and a heart ailment. He has now returned home, but can move about only with the aid of a metal crutch. Too frail to travel, he will be represented at this week's Nobel ceremonies by Son Jaroslav and Daughter Jana. Although he is usually unwilling to be interviewed by Western journalists, Seifert received TIME Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and Eastern Europe Correspondent John Moody in his comfortable, slightly threadbare second-floor apartment in Prague. The 90-min. interview took place in Seifert's book-lined living room, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: A Poet Speaks of Art and Liberty | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

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