Word: landlordism
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...renting the houses at market value, Harvard could tighten its finances just as it could by selling the houses at market value. Disposing of the properties, however, would solve the real estate problem. "I suppose it is a bother for the University to be a landlord," Peterson said...
Most of the tenants said they are satisfied with Harvard as their landlord. Bloomfield said he would be disappointed if the University asked him to purchase the house he is renting at 13 Kirkland Place. Bloomfield has lived in the house since February 1962, when the negotiated his rent with the University...
...faculty members and administrators said they would not live in Harvard-owned houses because they would feel uncomfortable with the University playing the dual role of employer and landlord...
Despite the public appearance of returning properties to the Cambridge community, therefore, the University's divestiture plan places Harvard in the role of puppet landlord--pulling the strings behind the private owners.CrimsonMartin KalishThis house, located at 21 Bryant St., is currently rented to Jerome A. Cohen, professor...
...Mexican border is a great divide. Below it, the accumulated structures of Western "rationality" waver and plunge. The familiar shapes of society ? landlord and peasant, priest and politician ? are laid over a stranger ground, the occult Mexico, with its brujos and carismaticos, its sorcerers and diviners. Some of their practices go back 2,000 and 3,000 years to the peyote and mush room and morning-glory cults of the ancient Aztecs and Toltecs. Four centuries of Catholic repression in the name of faith and reason have reduced the old ways to a subculture, ridiculed and persecuted...