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...Gurganus has a native connection to North Carolina and the windy school of Southern writing. But unlike many of its more portentous graduates, he grounds catastrophe with humor. A shopping bag full of sex toys splits open on a crowded subway. A whimsical riff describes heaven as a polymorphous playground where Emily Dickinson is one of the few chaste holdouts. Elsewhere too, Gurganus puts a lot of buck-and-wing into what his fictional half calls a "Comedy of this shuffle toward the crypt...
...playground is paved and enclosed with red bricks that match many of the surrounding homes, and is dotted with stone benches and tables...
...park's construction was funded by an anonymous member of the Harvard community who bought the property and paid for its conversion to a playground. The benefactor then gave the property to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, who in turn handed it over to the City of Boston, which is still responsible for the park today...
...square-foot facility and playground will result in lost parking and open space and create noise and traffic, according to the tenants of the 110 units in the Botanic Gardens Apartments...
...Harvard campus is divided into several sections for voting. Students living in the Yard and all River Houses except Mather and Dunster vote at the Broadway St. Fire Station; Mather and Dunster residents vote at the Corporal Burns Playground on Banks St.; those living on Walker St. with street numbers under 90, or on the even numbered side of Shepard St., vote at the Harvard Epworth Church; and those on Walker St. with street number over 90 or on the odd numbered side of Shepard St. vote at the Peabody School on Linnaean...