Word: mems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unseasonably warm weather, prompted by the heightened greenhouse effect underway, persists into the new year. The polar ice caps begin to melt, flooding Canada and parts of downtown Cambridge. Harvard Facilities Maintenance men work 'round the clock to keep paths to the libraries and Mem Hall passable. Reading Period, cancerlike, festers into exam period. Students refuse to take exams for the first three days until their biological clocks have completed the full two-week cycle...
...book's shortcomings. As leisurely and sinuous in its flow as the Ganges, sometimes crashing through rapids, more often meandering into tributaries, Jewel does on occasion get bogged down in its own complexities. In the middle episodes, when the action closes in on Layton and four other mem-sahibs, the show could be mistaken for a provincial soap opera, and a brackish one at that. Sometimes too it parades a kind of sincerity that teeters on melodrama. Symbols are spelled out, symmetries underlined, characters displayed with embarrassing nakedness. Merrick never tires of proclaiming his lower-class origins, and Kumar...
...past nine summers, the one-and-a-half mile section of Mem Drive next to the River Bend Park has been blocked off on Sundays between 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The intention was to allow residents of Cambridge to enjoy the park without the nuisance of traffic on the drive...
Those who have not yet paid their term bills--the first portion of which was due on August 5--will discover the infamous red dot on their registration packets, a warning that they must pay the same $40 fee unless they arrive at Mem Hall with checks in hand...
Although there are 150 officially recognized student groups, only the 64 who applied to Epps' office received space in the vast plastic tent attached to the south end of Mem Hall for the occasion...