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Harvard is giving the City of Cambridge $100,000 as well as architectural assistance to renovate the Corporal Burns Playground which the University damaged during the construction of Peabody Terrace and Mather House...
...final plan for the playground renovation passed the Cambridge City Council Monday night. Construction will be delayed about eight weeks as final specifications are drawn up and bids made, Donald C. Moulton, assistant to the vice-president for Government and Community Affairs, said last week...
...construction of a 2000 car garage to be covered with a landscaped garden. The low-rise units will approximate living conditions which the hospital extension will destroy, while income from space leased in the garage will revert to the tenant developers. Tennis courts, a swimming pool, and several playground areas are also slated for construction...
Though puns may be used to political advantage-or disadvantage-punning has traditionally been more the farm of the artist than the playground of the politician. By punning, which probably derives from the Italian puntiglio (fine point), the writer grows ideas as well as wit. Aristophanes punned, with scatological exuberance, and so did Homer and Cicero. What was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare. Because he had to play to the galleries, his plays were par for the coarse, brimming with such verbal pratfalls as "Discharge yourself of our company, Pistol." But Shakespeare could also buff...
...habitation except by the memories of those De Sica has brought to life and led to death. Like Micol's breasts seen through the wet veil of her drenched tennis shirt, De Sica's method is one of powerful suggestiveness. A tennis court is a concentration camp is a playground for whatever mental visions the director's varying ideas project onto the screens of his audience's mind...