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Rehearsals for "Two Gentlemen of Verona," Harvard's first outdoor musical, drew large crowds yesterday at the Sever Quadrangle and provided a preview to the production, which will open...
...America, war no longer served to create unity but to sever it. It was the home-grown calamity of a blackout that welded a populace; the oil embargo served not to weaken national resolve, but to bolster it -although that resolve ebbed when the gas pumps flowed. In these cases, moral equivalency worked because the crises were perceived as serious but not desperate (the embargo) or desperate but not serious (the blackout). Americans could wryly agree with Historian D.W. Brogan's citation of the contrast between democratic government and the nondemocratic, which "is like a splendid ship, with...
Once past Mass Ave and into the Yard, there was no sweat. Widener quickly became a blur, and as I'd cut down the path between Sever and Emerson toward the Fogg--which I was in most of the time--I'd wonder why everyone thinks that good weather gives them a license to walk around with half of their clothes...
...staph bug contained a gene that directs the production of a penicillinase, an enzyme that cracks apart invading penicillin molecules, making them ineffective. Different plasmids, sometimes passed from one bacterium to another, can order up still another kind of chemical weapon, a so-called restriction enzyme, which can sever the DNA of an invading virus, say, at a predetermined point...
...disabled, that it merely reflects conditions throughout society. They feel the University has been cooperative, in view of the problems it faces in meeting their requests. The age of certain buildings does not only present barriers to the disabled but makes the barriers' removal a problem as well. Sever Hall is a National Historic Landmark, and the Federal Historic Commission must grant permission before Harvard can alter the building's appearance. In Drickamer's words, "How do you put a subtle ramp on Sever...