Word: shared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Poland, Wiesel met again and again with government officials to try to persuade them to share materials and records of Polish Jewry that they had withheld for almost 40 years. Repeatedly he managed to gain concessions. Exhausted, as lean as a Giacometti sculpture, Wiesel walked through the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, past the forest of neglected tombstones, until he found one that seemed to summarize his mission: the carved figure of a man who died in 1943, holding in his hand the final symbol of the ghetto struggle, a grenade...
Hasty Pudding Theatricals: fun and pun on Holyoke St. Drag queens prance across the Pudding's yearly spectacle, written by undergrads. It's not quite Broadway, but the Pudding and New York's theater district share one trait: they both need lots of money...
...University bureaucracy has in the past decade acquired the streamlined, ultramodern but still sprawling look that characterizes the steel-and-glass Science Center. But to students who need something from it or, more often, are forced into its corridors, the Harvard administration continues to share the Byzantine complexity and grotesque illogic of Memorial Hall...
...first thing you need to know is that there are actually two bureaucracies that will share the Yard with you throughout the year. Massachusetts Hall--the Yard's oldest brick-and-ivy structure--houses the University administration. President Bok and his bevy of vice president oversee the College and all of the graduate schools, as well as all other University affiliates, from this unassuming perch. Across the way, in University Hall, more impressive and dominating by far, sits the College administration--the building's name is meant to confuse you. Here Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
When you have specific questions during Freshman Week or therafter--about advanced standing requirements, about extracurricular activities, about your psychotic roommate who threatened your life--you're much better off approaching a middle-level bureaucrat on his own turf than shooting too high. These men tend to share a thorough competence in their fields, and a willingness to help students as long as they accept certain ground rules...