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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to MBTA Engineer George Wey, the outbound tunnel from Harvard Square to Porter Square will come within feet of the gym, which is located on "very soft soil." In the past, the University worked out an agreement with the MBTA to soundproof and underpin certain Harvard buildings, including Wigglesworth and Wyeth Halls. But Wey says that no provisions have been made...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: The Red Line: Will the MBTA's Troubles Never Cease? | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Italy, and in 1976 was soloist in a New York performance of the Viola Concerto by the late Harvard professor Walter Piston. Two years ago he gave the premiere of a work by a Black composer from Ghana, Samuel Johnson, with an orchestra led by Black conductor Karl Hampton Porter...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Black String Musicians: Ascending the Scale | 8/1/1980 | See Source »

Without his self-lacerating venom, Jimmy Porter (Malcolm McDowell) would be an intolerable bully. As it is, he humiliates his upper-class wife Alison (Lisa Banes), who hides behind a stiff upper lip and an ironing board. He hectors his live-in friend Cliff (Raymond Hardie), with whom he has some sort of male-bonding kinship. And he browbeats his actress mistress Helena (Fran Brill), who moves in when Alison leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Battle Royal of the Sex Wars | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...jury apparently agreed. Said Juror William Savage, 37, a carpenter: "We knew the financial statements were wrong, but there wasn't enough evidence to show that he had actually intended to make false statements." Anthony Tigner, 25, a railroad porter, admitted that the jury was leaning toward conviction on at least one charge, but added, "Certain people felt the defendants were not guilty, regardless of the evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: We Just Plain Licked 'Em' | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...organized service providing packaged advice--people are trained, evaluated and fired," Moses says. Beyond the task force, though, there is no formal upperclass advising. Moses disliked Students Helping Students--an organization formed last year matching upperclassmen and freshmen according to interest--because of its "initial grandiosity." But Porter sees a need for as many sources of advice as possible: "Anything more is good...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: We Aim to Please... | 5/8/1980 | See Source »

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