Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprisingly, the House masters eventually took a more pragmatic view. If a local liquor merchant, upset with the Houses' flippant dismissal of the law, complained to authorities, or if a sodden teenager raising trouble mentioned he'd gotten the booze at Harvard, it would be the masters' heads rolling. Masters are not the legal guardians of college students, but the House system sets them up in loco parentis. The House masters could therefore not afford to let students run their own happy hours, no matter how discriminate in serving the students promised to be. The potential for a lawsuit...
Schmidt encouraged students to exert pressure on their local Congressmen...
Community groups are claiming that construction in the area--known as Parcel 1B--will make traffic and air pollution levels in Harvard Sqare unbearable, if not unsafe. The project, originally suggested in May 1977, is still tied up in a series of state and local hearings and reports aimed at assessing its impact on the Square...
...Paris. The main influences on him were Cézanne and, above all, Matisse (Bruce once lent Picasso money, but refused to take his art seriously: it was too showy and volatile for him.) His homages to Matisse never ended. Matisse's insistence on achieving structure through local color contrast lies behind Bruce's post-cubist compositions of 1916, in which he tried, not altogether successfully, to fuse color with the implied movement of sculpture and the actual movements of jazz dance...
...faculties that grant degrees under Vatican authority, is also troubling. This last decree affects departments in only eight U.S. institutions, but could foreshadow church-wide rules in a forthcoming code of canon law. The document requires that the Vatican approve or disapprove the orthodoxy of tenured professors, and urges local bishops to take any doctrinal complaints to the Vatican if the schools themselves...