Word: parlorized
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...hadn’t seen the BBC version and I was coming to it quite fresh. It wasn’t a book I had lived with for a long time. I felt a huge responsibility to a young girl [Jane Austen] who was 21, who sat in a parlor in English countryside in 1797, and wrote this book from her heart. I had a responsibility to her to be true to her and her creation. But I didn’t really worry about the whole baggage that comes with that novel. —Staff writer Kristina...
...cabinet of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard’s umbrella organization for public service, elected Alicia Rodriguez ’07 as its next president at a meeting last night in the PBHA Parlor Room. Rodriguez, who is currently PBHA secretary, ran on a platform of developing student leadership, increasing recruitment, improving access to Harvard resources, and tightening focus within PBHA’s 77 community service programs. “It’s important to make sure we don’t let in so many programs that the programs we do have cannot make...
Year's end is a time of tradition and transition. So folks play the spiritual parlor game called Taking Stock, in which the players consider what the world's shapers have given them. In these pages is one view of life at the end of 1993: science looks ahead; art looks back. Each discipline could help the other. Those stratospheric Maytag repairmen from the Endeavour might be hired to wire the TV set of the future for 500 channels, and then maybe the gene wizards could splice some decent programming into it. Biosphere II might be a good place...
...back of his shop and furnished it with towels, a low-lit lamp, and a small mirror angled just so above the bed. With fraying tassels and a lacy black shawl hanging from the ceiling, the room is more evocative of a Victorian boudoir than a therapeutic massage parlor...
...says. This phenomenon—impressive for the mid-1960’s—seemed to be characteristic of the zeitgeist of the Square, which at the time was overflowing with small shops and inviting eateries.The Hayes Bickford was eventually replaced by an ice cream parlor, which was then replaced by what is now the Bank of America. In fact, most of the banks and similar stores in the Square replaced student-friendly venues and hangouts. A popular eatery once operated where the Cambridge Savings Bank now stands. The Sprint store on the corner of Brattle and Church streets...