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Much of the effort concentrates on turning the space between Memorial Church and Widener Library into the approximately 20,000-person Tercentenary Theater, the place where North America's oldest ritual takes place each year...
Meanwhile, the oldest offspring--18 and older--in the Blue Group will be participating in such exciting pastimes as symposia on "Harvard Today," "The Lively Arts," "Our Economic Environment," and "After College, What?" They can also spend their time playing golf and tennis and drinking--provided they're wearing wristbands signifying they are at least...
...week will culminate, of course, with Commencement. But only the oldest children, the Blue Group, will be able to accompany their parents to that event. The younger children will be shipped off to the beach...
...orthodox historic preservationists, it seems perverse to make instant history out of the immediate past. But Hess is a militant. He belongs to the Society for Commercial Archeology and claims as his proudest achievement convincing the Department of the Interior in 1984 that the oldest surviving McDonald's, plopped down just 31 years earlier in suburban Los Angeles, deserves inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places...
...manner amounts to a kind of self-cancellation, is dully conventional. And a subplot that involves them in an endlessly unfunny attempt to soothe the troubled spirit of Burgess's mad old mom is irrelevant and near to tasteless. She is played by Lillian Gish, and the movies' oldest pro clearly understands that she is trapped in Sweet Liberty's dreariest neighborhood. She does her brash best to break loose, but her efforts are more brave than successful. Doubtless her first auteur, D.W. Griffith, warned her there would be roles like this. And movies like this, signaling good intentions...