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...true Pepys was a sort of underground artist, living in the silence, exile and cunning of his diary. Certainly Pepys was an avid collector of fine-bound volumes, which he arranged according to their height rather than subject matter, and he had a portrait of himself painted with a scrap of musical score in one hand. There is something more than a little bogus about Pepys the aesthete, as if he collected his culture the way he built up his cellar (he was a wine snob who kept his Haut-Brion claret in a cask). His custom-de signed carriage...
...CONSERVATION. I wonder, theoretically, if it's right that the auto industry should chew up as much raw materials as it chews up. I don't think we've done as much as we should with scrap. A lot more should be done with recycling materials...
...businesses. The Brattle pedestrian mall, a Cornelia Wheeler-backed project, closed off Brattle St. at Brattle Square to all but emergency traffic. The project lasted for six months until. Wheeler claims, Square retailers chose to brand the mall a scapegoat for slumping trade and successfully petitioned the council to scrap the measure...
Although Zeph Stewart, master of Lowell House, may have viewed his proposal to scrap the one-to-one ratio at the Quadrangle Houses as a simple resolution to provoke discussion of the housing issue, the new Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life representatives did not share his opinion...
...summoned the once imperious committee chairmen to appear before them one by one to state their position on the party program. If the chairmen try to behave with their traditional independence and ignore party instructions, they risk being removed. Such a strengthening of the opposition party means a rougher scrap for Ford on the Hill...