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...series probably deserves another chance. The library's intimate hall has pleasant, warm acoustics, and its glass-enclosed displays of 15th-century manuscripts add to an already opulent atmosphere. The later concerts--featuring such Boston players as Mashuko Ushioda, Laurence Lessen and Luise Vosgerchian playing works of Brahms, Ravel, and others--show promise of being more interesting and more successful...
...More stores should have them. Lots of times you wonder if you are getting the right change, but this eliminates the wonder." One dissenting voice belongs to Linda Swope, an Albertson's customer who complains about one part of the supermarket experience that no machine can make pleasant. Says she: "It's disgusting. No one wants to hear that one lousy steak costs...
...this deck. A homicidal speed freak ("Gimme a rush, Jesus. If you want me for a sunbeam"), Pablo signs on with Jack and Deedee Callahan, a permanently sloshed American couple who run guns in a cutter disguised as a shrimp boat. This work is not so easy or pleasant as it once was. Sizing up Pablo, his new crewman, Jack says, "I used to like it when the baddest thing around these parts was me. These days I'm just another innocent abroad." The boat, guns and Pablo are destined for Tecan...
...Monday morning, the remnants of a Sunday Oktoberfest celebration arranged by Harvard Square businessmen. The merchants had asked city permission to shut off the street; it was granted without debate. And if there was a lot of litter, it was not too high a price to pay for a pleasant celebration. Not only that, the businesses that line Boylston St. even made some money...
Though they focused on more pleasant issues at last week's ceremony, the conflict rules inevitably crept into conversation. Early in the proceedings, Rosovsky had tacitly acknowledged that some faculty members were grumbling, as he turned his congratulatory message into a mini-lecture on "the primacy of University obligations." Professors, he stressed, should see the new building not as a gift from the University, but as "a trust...