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Word: sadnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...INDEED SAD to see the transformation of the Square Anyone who has visited other college campuses has most likely seen what this are could very well turn into a colorless strip of Golden Arches, blue Jean shops and pizza parlors. But it is uncertain whether a few licensing squabbles won will serve as anything more than pebbles ever so slightly altering the course of the tide pouring through the area. Within the past two months, it was announced that two of the oldest establishments in Cambridge--Schoenhol's and pangloss Bookstores--will soon close down to make room...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: A Changing Neighborhood | 2/15/1983 | See Source »

Johnson himself describes the trend over the past few years as "the process of incremental alterations, and before anyone realized it, it's changed. [There's a feeling of] let's get a handle on it. Do what you want, but do something" It is sad, but probably the truth, that, in a few years, the old Harvard Square will be gone-whatever they...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: A Changing Neighborhood | 2/15/1983 | See Source »

...Some of them are funny, some are mystical, some are sad, and some of them are frightening," says Ball of his collection of over 100 letters, adding "I've always wanted to check whether their arrival coincides with any natural phenomenon like a full moon...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: 'The Adjudicator of the World' | 2/9/1983 | See Source »

Although many of these letters can be brushed off as aberrant humor. Hightower asserts that there is a limit to what one can just chuckle about "Some of the letters are genuinely sad, because in many cases you can read between the desperation in the message by the way the word is put down on paper...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: 'The Adjudicator of the World' | 2/9/1983 | See Source »

When such suffering seems from flood or ramine, it is sad. But the misery of the Ghanaians has been caused by politics, which adds disgrace to the tragedy...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: West African Tragedy | 2/8/1983 | See Source »

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