Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before, Dan Hingston, Withington's veteran auction manager, had unscrewed the brass drawer pulls of an inlaid, bowfront bureau. It was a rare piece, made around 1800, and Hingston had expected it to bring from $7,000 to $10,000. He discovered that the elaborate inlay work was modern, probably done about 50 years...
...went on to a limited run at the Kennedy Center in Washington; and the U.S. premiere of Odon von Horvath's Figaro Gets a Divorce, a work of protest written in 1937 in Nazi Germany. Currently playing are Gillette, a comic adventure set in a Wyoming boomtown, and a modern version of the Greek tragedy Ajax, directed by Peter Sellars and imported from Sellars' now defunct American National Theater in Washington...
...Innovation is so much a part of this place that each year there are essays on new developments, new concentrations, new changes in the departments and what have you," said the Ford Professor of Ancient and Modern History Franklin L. Ford...
...distinguished, silver-haired 80-year-old, Pusey returned to the place where he spent his youthful college days and his more sobering days as president for the 350th celebrations. Sitting in the courtyard of the modern Science Center, which was not completed until after Pusey's departure, the New York resident smiles proudly when he speaks of his twin granddaughters who will enter the College this fall...
...Thursday night, Pusey got a taste of the modern protest when divestment activists blockaded Memorial Hall during a 350th celebratory dinner. "That seemed to be a relatively small group, and I would suspect a very small percentage were connected with Harvard...