Word: strause
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...Harvard students met their future roommates through "alt.fan.karl-malden," a newsgroup colonized last year by students in Straus C entryway, said Janet E. Rosenbaum...
...Peter Hoeg, a Danish novelist then new to America, was a slyly expressed contempt for what the author saw as his country's bourgeois self-satisfaction. This much relished contempt and cheerfully malign slyness are the driving forces of Hoeg's first novel, The History of Danish Dreams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 356 pages; $24), which has now been issued in the U.S. That said, there's not much similarity between the two novels. Smilla has a powerful narrative flow; Dreams is a lumpish absurdity that fuddles to a halt after several dozen pages, begins again with new characters and repeats...
...also initiated scientific research into chemical composition of materials, founding the Straus Conservation Center in 1928 with the help of a staff chemist. Their methods of teaching conservation became the model all, over the country and inspired later directors to found a program for the teaching of such techniques. Straus continues to be one of the most important such centers in America, garnering contracts from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and attention from abroad. The Center is currently undergoing renovation and expansion, including a full climate-control system...
President Neil L. Rudenstine has a clear vision of the museums' priorities. "The needs of Harvard's art museums at this time are substantial: to maintain our collection properly; to provide proper space and endowment for the Straus Center for Conservation; to create a critically important climate-control system for the Fogg Art Museum; and to endow key curatorships and programs...
...Straus adds that the access to a typing service enables him to write at home and come in to use library and pick up and drop off his writing...