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...only place where any of McGuire's capital improvement plans have come to fruition is the Sever quadrangle...
...Hall, missed by many of us who enjoyed its semi-successful neoclassical style and struggled through inaudible lectures in its domed auditorium. (The acoustical problem was finally corrected in 1972, the last year of Hunt's existence.) But Hunt was not a masterpiece on the order of, for instance, Sever Hall, and it had outlived its usefulness in the judgment of university planners. Its loss should not be too bitterly mourned...
...Yard described above. In some areas, notably those deemed by the University's landscape office to be residential in scale, the shrubbery seems to work well. A successful example is, once again, the court between Matthews and Strauss, and, potentially, the Canaday court. On the east side of Sever Hall, however, situated in a much larger yard, the shrubs are an unmitigated disaster. Their diminutive scale and bushy quality tend to distract the eye from and visually undercut a most majestic building...
...DEAD is a scurvy mob melo drama that nevertheless presents sever al new insights into the manners and morals of gangland. We note, for ex ample, that persons affiliated with the Mafia have a certain delicacy when referring to bathroom matters. "Can I use the powder room?" a sultry lady inquires of a beau. A bomber explains his eagerness to escape an impending explosion by gesturing toward the facilities, hopping up and down and muttering "Uhhmm . . . nature call." Further, it seems that the Mafia has taken matters of ecology straight to heart: corpses are deposited all neatly wrapped in plastic...
...support for the National Liberation Front has been the issue that has unified radicals and left-liberals at Harvard and shaped the character of protest here for the past six years. The war is not over by any means, but its searing vividness has been dimmed enough to sever most left-liberals from the radical coalition, leaving the radicals floundering about in search of the base for a new alliance...