Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dorm crew knows of at least 10 other campus lost and founds. Every house, every library and every classroom building seems to have its own; the Science Center alone holds three. There is no Master Cache, no granddaddy of all lost and founds. Bottom line: if you don't know where you lost it, you're probably not getting it back...
...were the first to master the running man. Your roger rabbit rocks the party that rocks the party. Luckily, classes at the MAC and Radcliffe have just started, so your inner Nureyev can stretch, chasse and find a beat...
...certainly wasn't always this way. In a discussion a year and a half ago, former Lowell House master William H. Bossert '59 described with fondness the days when the House committee would regularly plan parties which most of the residents would attend. He attributed the declining role of the House in Harvard social life to the raising of the drinking age in the 1980s, which forced weekend activities off campus to bars in the Square and the final clubs. I think part of the demise of the House is explained by the astronomical rise in the number of student...
...much of a realist was he? In De Hooch's world every brick is in place--he was, as a matter of fact, the son of a master bricklayer--but that place may not have been in a real structure. The show contains two paintings of the "same" scene, a courtyard in Delft, from 1658, featuring a brick archway with an inscribed tablet and a round window above it, and a little arbor to the right. Except that in the second version the arbor isn't an arbor but a shed; and the slice of street seen through the archway...
...novel is an adventure story first; it wears its lofty paradoxes lightly. Bounding over the waves and through the woods, Covington bears an almost feudal loyalty to the brilliant master he calls "the gent." But while Darwin may have the upper hand socially and intellectually, Covington is the superior psychologist, gifted with a rustic common sense that allows him to hold his own with the great man and slyly enrich himself under Darwin's nose by selling rare animals to London collectors. Like the fantastic tortoises they encounter in the Galapagos, servant and master are perfectly adapted to their respective...