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...your specialty is foreign language books, however, you're certain to find le mot juste at Schoenhof's on Mass. Ave. (though soon to move to the basement of a Harvard finals club). Can't read another language? Not to worry, this store has close to a dozen different French-English dictionaries. If your taste runs more to Dickinson than Danish, head around to Grolier Book Shop on Plympton St. Grolier expounds the karma of poetry hang around to catch occasional readings, book parties for modern day Petrarch as well as the Square's most extensive poetry collection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking for Mr. Goodbook | 6/26/1983 | See Source »

...enhanced the chilling irony of Jim Thompson's Southern-gothic novel Pop. 1280 by setting it in the blazing heat of French colonial Africa circa 1938. His script, written with Jean Aurenche, has a way of sneaking brutal truths home in comic forms that range from the bon mot to the shaggy-dog story. The film is all very dislocating: the audience does not expect to see black comedy played out in bleached-white settings or to find the soul of an existential epigrammatist lurking under a rumpled bush jacket. It is also tough, smart and marvelously unpredictable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Alive and Well in Europe | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...inherent divisiveness caused by a system of carding should mot suggest there is no alternative to Harvard's hit-and-miss way of practicing alcohol regulation. In fact, it is the very divisiveness emerging among Harvard's Houses and within some due to the inconsistencies which necessitate a better way. For this, Harvard could benefit from swallowing its pride and looking down Mass Ave toward...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Delirium Tremens | 5/5/1982 | See Source »

...frontiers, Americans were faced by an impassable frontier within the self, so that the man of action had been replaced by the watcher, or voyeur, whose act of watching included the creative functions or "eye" of the artist. One is company, two is a crowd: such is the implied mot to. This, perhaps, is why one senses so in tense a bond between Hopper and his apparently aloof, disconnected human subjects. The distance between the self and the other was bridged by an acute feeling of common predicament-a much more valuable thing than the compassion routinely expected of social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Realist at the Frontiers | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...weapons and attached some other strands to that thread to suggest a bleak view of the 70s. This would be a one-sided picture for me personally, since I can think of more than one issue at a time. The 70s have also seen what I regard as the mot significant cultural development of the decade: namely, the women's movements in all their variety and, at times, short-sighted over-confidence leading to backlash. The women's movements have affected not only the upper educated strata, but have filtered into the rest of the society and have, of course...

Author: By David Riesman, | Title: Nuclear Countdown | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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