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When realtor John Briston Sullivan wanted to erect the Treadway on city land between Mt. Auburn and Eliot St. in 1961, he had to go to Crane for the needed parcel. And in a unique deal Crane engineered the sale of the "air rights" to Sullivan to build the hotel provided he leave some municipal parking spots underneath. The Boston Phoenix reported in 1971 Crane was duly rewarded with some legal business at the other end of the state. Although Harvard had at the time offered to build a much larger parking garage on the site and then give...
...Harvard did its best but was saddled with too meager a mechanism to buy, or just wasn't shrewd enough to deal with private land developers. When the banks of the Charles were covered with old coal storage dumps, only a few alumni had the foresight to buy the parcel and donate it to Harvard...
...Strang's creative energies are lodged part and parcel with his strange psychosis, and its exorcism leaves him an empty shell, incapable of anything one-hundredth as passionate as before. This is the play's point, and it's not a new one and this isn't its most profound presentation. That madness may be better than sanity--who are we, who have never known true madness, to judge--goes back as far as you want to take it into Western thought. What Equus does is make it into good theater. Shaffer's play is propaganda for the Dionysiac element...
...presentation before the Cambridge Transportation Forum at Cambridge City Hall last night, Don Durano, of the MBTA's consulting firm Sverdrup & Parcel, said the University had expressed opposition to construction outside of Harvard Yard but that the proposed tunnel under Radcliffe Yard had not been discussed...
Durano said that Sverdrup & Parcel would not make a final recommendation for many months, and that the firm was soliciting opinions from interested groups. The presentation came in the 24th week of a 38-week study of re-routing the Red-Line through Harvard Square...