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...sanctity. But this is House drama, produced at a Harvard House. That Harvard is not the same as the real world seems fairly certain at this point. Do things that happen at Harvard also happen simultaneously in the real world? Probably not, and the resulting shared-dirty-joke shawl which protectively envelops Coop rebates embarrassing WHRB-broadcasted speeches at Faculty meetings, and the President of the University's press releases is also the shawl that makes the Virgin's energetic screams of labor pain the object of unerring, honest delight...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: Blasphemy The Greatest Musical Ever Sung at Dunster House November 19-21 | 11/19/1970 | See Source »

...bald man. Here and there the trunks of fallen coconut palms lay on the edge of the ditches, and the dead bamboo stood with its naked stalks pointing up to the sky. The dull yellow and the ash-gray covered the earth and stretched like a mourning shawl toward the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: A View from the Villages | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...usual, your reporter did an excellent job. His portrait of one of the last of the rugged individualists was as good as mom's apple pie and as carefully woven as granny's old shawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 22, 1969 | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...nicely by having us face the living-room (and dining-room beyond) from the diagonal. And he has carefully included objects that tell us much about the characters of the household--little vases of lilacs or lilies-of-the-valley, framed pictures, an old square piano with a tasseled shawl, candle brackets by the main door, a writing desk and accoutrements, a folding screen, antimacassars on the backs and arms of chairs, and so on. Hovering over everything in the back are gray tree branches suggestive of tentacles that keep the inhabitants rooted to their provincial garrison town although they...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Chekhov's 'Three sisters' Admirably Staged | 8/5/1969 | See Source »

...drop in Shannon's business, but last year 714,000 passengers passed through, nearly double the number in the peak pre-jet years. The thought of picking up an authentic Aran Islands sweater for $19.50, a genuine Irish tweed sports jacket for $32, or a hand-crocheted christening shawl for $12 was enough to make many jet-borne travelers reroute their itinerary and stop briefly at Shannon. Sales have been growing by 20% annually, to last year's $6,000,000. Most of Shannon's shoppers are American tourists returning home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airports: A Guide to Jet-Age Bazaars | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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