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...later with the construction of Mather and Currier--has provided undergraduates with a dining hall, library and an intellectual and social base they can call their own. But, in recent years and with growing regularity, Houses have also been a domain for faulty heat and plumbing, peeling paint and plaster and some of the College's biggest headaches. "Some rooms are 100 degrees, some are ten. I have one roommate who uses a space heater. Another one keeps his window open," J. Marc Chapus '81, says, recalling winter heating at Winthrop...
...efforts of Gerrity and Coburn suggest that solutions to the deterioration problems of Harvard pipes, radiators, wires, plaster, paint, brick and mortar exist, but the money dilemma lingers. Solutions to the problems, if found, will need funding--much more, many suspect, than the $12 million earmarked for the Houses in the capital fund drive. And raising more dollars, especially for important, but unglamorous and invisible mechanical work, will be hard. "Nobody's going to give a lot of money to something that already has someone else's name on it," Oscar Handlin, director of the University Library and Pforzheimer University...
...atmosphere in the White House has changed," says Curator Clem Conger. "You can look around and see the difference." He means that literally. "The White House was a mess," Reagan told friends. Budget restraint had led to peeling paint, holes in the plaster and just plain dirt. "They [meaning the Carters] wouldn't let us do anything," said a man from General Services Administration. "That wasn't good. After all, this is the White House." Cleanup, paint-up are under...
...attackers, most of them wearing olive drab parkas and blue jeans. In the marble corridors outside the chamber, some 200 uniformed men nervously fingered their weapons as they sealed off the exits. The invaders fired their submachine guns at the ceiling to drown out the Deputies' protests, causing plaster to rain over the assembly. Most of the country's elected parliamentarians, the government's senior Cabinet members-indeed Spain's effective democracy-were being held hostage in the ornate chamber...
Perhaps the best group of stories in this collection deals with England during World War II, especially London in the blitz. Bowen courageously, stubbornly stayed in her house there, when many friends had taken to the countryside to escape the German bombardment. While the city shook and plaster fell, Bowen collected images and wove them into stories that hauntingly balanced civilization above an abyss. In the Square notes how the bombs were returning London to nature: "The sun, now too low to enter [the square] normally, was able to enter brilliantly at a point where three of the houses...