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...Finally the last lecture comes and goes and it's off to the airport and a short plane ride to the city that many compare to a rather large apple. Getting out of a taxi of the door of his 25-story apartment building, the student steps into a pile of shit deposited by an uncurbed dog and he curses the day he ever left the comparatively unsullied streets of Cambridge...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Wrongs of Spring | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

Down the block from Fisher's house is an old brick apartment building that some developer has settled upon as a likely spot for condominium living. Workers are clearing out the interior and leaving a pile of rubble outside the building...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Frank Fisher | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

Epps is now conducting an investigation of the charges in the report, working with four International Relations Council members to get to the bottom of the pile of vouchers and receipts in the report...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett and Nicholas Lemann, S | Title: A Not-So-Model U.N. | 3/8/1975 | See Source »

Gradually I brake and ease the car into a clearing off the road. The Mercury's engine gurgles and fails, it is quiet again. His face is finally calm, but I squeeze mine a little so it still looks offended. A yard away, a pile of fallen leaves breaks and an animal with a naked, ringed tail rustles out. Startled, my brother watches the possum's ambling intently. The car door swings wide and he slinks around to my side. I can't help smiling at his shrewd expression as he motions for me to step...

Author: By Anemona Hartocolhs, | Title: In the '55 Mercury | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...would be to come up with figures on the number of frustrated playwrights at Harvard who've written works that have never been read, much less produced, buried away amongst their old term papers, such people do exist. In a drawer in the HDC office there is a pile of two dozen scripts, many written by Harvard and Radcliffe students, aching to be read and produced. And a fair number of Hasty Pudding scripts--all of them original--are rejected every year. The Premiere Society has already received manuscripts to consider for future productions. All that has been needed...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Getting the Ear of the Loeb | 2/27/1975 | See Source »

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