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Word: thayers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stage comes to life like an animated family album. Professor Serebryakov (Thayer David), an aged pedant with a book-lined skull, one of the eternal fourth-raters of the life of the mind. His second wife Helena (Elizabeth Owens), a pampered young tigress on a sick old husband's fretful leash. Dr. Astrov (Winston May), pickled in vodka and suffocating in a town that the god of civilization forgot. Uncle Vanya (Sterling Jensen), who has turned his life into bread for the professor and been bitterly cheated of even the crumbs. Sonya, a flower of a girl, blooming without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Patient Is the Disease | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

Another reason for the new interest in owning pets appears to be the old atmosphere of the city, especially in Harvard housing with its sealed-off living units. I remember walking up the four flights of Thayer Middle in September 1967, and seeing these four grey, automatically-closing doors on each floor. In this situation, you've got to import as much life into your room as possible, and a pet is perhaps the best way. "It's more human," one student said when asked why he kept...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: We're Coming to Take You Away, Ha Ha | 2/9/1971 | See Source »

...pick up ten bricks of righteous grass. From there, the plot hurtles forward with pace, plausibility and a cast that would do credit to an Ian Fleming thriller. Meet Musty the connection, who regularly runs 2,000 kilos of pot-no more, no less-from Mexico to California; John Thayer Hartnup III, Harvard's richest student and biggest dealer; Sukie, of the long legs and golden tan, whose love scenes with Peter seem cribbed from quondam TV cigarette commercials. Eventually, Sukie is seized with 40 bricks of marijuana in Boston. It all ends as some sort of upside-down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leaves of Grass | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...added that most of the students in Thayer House found centrex systems installed when they arrived last Fall...

Author: By Patti B. Saris, | Title: Telephone Co. Overcharges Students For Installation of Centrex Phones | 1/20/1971 | See Source »

Elliott Gilbert '74 of Thayer Hall said that when his roommate had called the phone company about a long distance call, he was informed that the company would subtract $6.50 from their seven-dollar installation fee which they were charged last fall...

Author: By Patti B. Saris, | Title: Telephone Co. Overcharges Students For Installation of Centrex Phones | 1/20/1971 | See Source »

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