Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Houghton, connected to Widener by a second-story overground bridge, contains most of Harvard's rare books, including first editions of Milton and original manuscripts of Hawthorne, said Associate Librarian Roger E. Stoddard...
Houghton has acquired a diverse collection of rare books, all of them gifts. "A lot of papers and honors theses have to be independent work...there's a lot of subjects in which you have to include rare books," said Stoddard...
...fine film and also that rare thing: a successful adaptation of a novel. It stands as a penetrating documentary that has no message, as a political thriller that is not an adventure, and as a love story without romance. Quietly it immerses us into the daily realities of life in contemporary Northern Ireland...
Freshman Gary Tearney expressed surprise at Harvard's difficulties, and added that such problems are extremely rare where he works at Hewlitt-Packard...
...middle-aged Muscovite asked me if it was true that Reagan 'is like Hitler.' When I told her that this image was completely erroneous, she replied, 'But that is what our television commentators tell us.' " For the cover image, Photographer Brian Alpert took a rare picture of Gromyko inside the Soviet mission in New York City, a building that few outsiders penetrate...