Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shannon Hall is tucked behind Vanserg which is hidden in back of the Biological Labs. It's a long walk to Shannon from almost any other part of the University. The ground floor of the building is one large, cold room made colder by the glare of fluorescent lighting. Inside, stage flats, the pine skeletons of platforms, plastic jugs of Elmer's Glue-All and piles of dingy muslin are stacked along several walls. An old upright piano, its guts exposed, has been pushed over to one corner. Grade school desks with writing arms and stenciled numbers on the backs...
...floor in masking tape is the shape of the Agassiz stage, a tiny area that will somehow have to accommodate 26 costumed actors. Two columns of support beams march in formation down the length of the room, through the stage, and iron grating covers the windows. Originally Shannon was the ROTC building. Now the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players use it as a place in which to hold rehearsals and build sets for their productions...
...provide a graphic perspective on this or any other time: Thomas Nast's cartoon of the U.S. contending with inflation might have been inked yesterday instead of in 1876. And the cartoon can provide a time capsule for the historian. New York Times Columnist William V. Shannon offers a sound, if wistful, prophecy when he foresees that "a hundred years from now, Herblock will be read and his cartoons admired by everyone trying to understand these strange times...
...Edgar F. Shannon, who studied at the Graduate School of Arts and Science for two years and taught in the English Department from 1950 to 1956, said he approached the investigation "very openminded and unbiased," and said he is confident that "that will be the attitude of everyone else...
...Ford Administration was only a few weeks old when Columnist William Shannon, writing in [More], found the White House-press honeymoon distressing; reporters, he said, should be more like a nagging collective mother-in-law than an affectionate spouse. Then Columnist George Will challenged the "English muffin theory of history"-a gibe at the overly generous play given Gerald Ford's staged self-service breakfast. Now the Los Angeles Times, with less humor but far more depth, has examined coverage of Ford and also found it wanting...