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Mrs. Porter's medieval Italian dining room table has been put to use as a mammoth desk for the Dean, and Elmwood's candelabra have been fashioned into lamps for most of the house. The new dining room stands out in Napoleonic splendor. Surely, the historical societies which were so...
The Memory Picture. Author Mitford's basic argument is that the cult of the prettied-up corpse, put on display in a ghoulish, make-believe sleep, is neither reverent nor religious, but a giant feat of merchandising. She has deadly fun with such astonishing specialists as the Practical Burial...
Castro also admitted that the revolution's dreams of rapid industrialization will have to wait. Agriculture, he said, "will be the base of our economy" for the next decade. "Why hurry to make a steel industry now when there are other more urgent things to be done?" Among the...
But the whole tone of morality then was different. In Restoration England, debauchery was public and unabashed. King Charles II acknowledged 14 bastards, openly went to church with them, even gave them titles (the present Duke of Richmond springs from the Stuart bar sinister). But there was just as much...
Trees in Harvard Yard Wednesday bore signs of an attempt to integrate the two cultures: students and faculty. Social Director Karen Ordahl ingeniously labelled Yard trees to personify the Groves of Academe: English, Mathematics, Philosophy; Tuffets Restoration Society....