Word: monolithism
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...Crimson Online, the new layout, the increased reflection of student life, the paper's efforts to liaise more actively with student groups and the efforts to foster diversity on the paper. The Crimson is certainly evolving, and some of the perceptions of The Crimson as an unresponsive, corporate monolith are changing...
...disagree with James Allen Johnson's plea for a Harvard Square McDonald's (Opinion, March 9), invoking McDonald's "right" to be here. John-son unfairly accuses those who are anti-corporate-chain-monolith of being anti-proletariat. Those who fight McDonald's can care about the local working class...
...Starbuck's and Tower Records take over Harvard Square, and the Gap takes over the world, the unique and the independent grow increasingly difficult to track down. Even among bookstores, which were once thriving reminders of individuality and art, the Barnes and Noble monolith (a.k.a. the Harvard Coop) has taken its toll. Its near-monopoly on textbooks leaves little room for the smaller shop. Yet there are still pockets of bookish bohemia dotting the Boston-Cambridge landscape...
Central Square residents have been battling Holmes since last spring, when the trust proposed to demolish four buildings that have stood since the turn of the century and replace them with an 11-story monolith. The Cambridge Planning Board will deliberate on Holmes' revised proposal tonight. If they give the go-ahead, the bulldozers would roll in early April...
Indeed the rules of the game in the Ivy League have changed. No longer is Harvard the unbeatable basketball monolith, the lone Goliath to seven Ancient Eight Davids...