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When all is said and done, taking the time and devoting the resources necessary to creating a truly splendid Allston campus will pay off. As long as the University continues to take student concerns into consideration and manages to put vision ahead of the bottom line, undergraduates might very well get a vibrant, happy, healthy center for student activity and student life across the river—and future first-years might not cringe at the thought of being exiled across the Charles. By deciding to build Houses in Allston, Harvard takes on the responsibility of making students want...
...other guides that exist for Harvard students are splendid, but the problem lies in the fact that the Harvard community has changed significantly in the past 20 years in terms of where students come from and what their interests are...this results in the fact that one book can’t fit all student interests,” said Montauk...
...pursuit, Madame Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis Belleville, where she enlists the help of the eponymous triplets—former scat singers turned household-item instrumentalists—in liberating Champion from the clutches of a diminutive wine magnate. A marvelous fusion of color, music, and caricature, each splendid offbeat frame restores faith in traditional hand-drawn animation...
...Hanks--sporting a goatee, a white suit and a mellifluous Southern accent--expertly essays the Guinness part as a criminal mastermind bent on separating a casino from its take. To this end, Hanks' character, Professor G.H. Dorr, rents a room in a house owned by Marva Munson (the splendid Irma P. Hall). He thereby obtains access to the basement; ostensibly it's a rehearsal space for his period-instrument group, but actually it's a headquarters for a dig toward riches...
...wrote pieces for TIME on silent stars Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks (when their films appeared in handsome video collections), on Dorothy Dandridge (a new biography), on the comedy band leader Spike Jones (a double-CD set, with liner notes by Thomas Pynchon). One year, a splendid season of every Samuel Beckett play cued a longish essay; the next, the packaging of musical shorts from the 30s and 40s. And there was the week when all the grownups were on vacation and I assigned myself a page on a Hawaiian steel-guitar virtuoso of the 1920s. For goodness? sake...