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People always ask how much the combined reunions and Commencement cost the University. Victor Koivumaki '68, the co-chairman of the Commencement Planning Task Force, said last week. But because the organization of Commencement week is divided among several organizations and financially "each tub is on its own bottom," no one can estimate the total cost of all activities, he added...
...century and ours: whether the world is spinning into chaos, or, after a long penance, tapping the divine. That question, which now as then elicits all the varying strategies of self-defense--embarrassment, indifference, and dogma--has rarely been asked with greater dignity." Channing was not a tub-thumping, rabble-rousing patriot, nor is Delbanco a wide-eyed and vociferous liberal. Like his subject, he asks what it means to be an American, and successfully depicts the miracles and misfortunes...
...Boswell and Dr. Johnson to arrive, when the talk turned to the frantic trendiness of U.S. society. Go to a cocktail party, someone said, and everybody's talking about manipulating the money market, or parachute jumping, or that group therapy where everybody sits nude in a big tub of Wesson Oil. Yeah, said another citizen, there you are in your clean bowling shirt and they all want to go to the roller disco. "People think they have to be able to discuss everything, enjoy everything. They have an irrational impulse to be interesting." (The quotation was so good Troise...
Another work at the Lehnbachaus was a metal table on wheels, placed over a tub of waxy material. A cabinet-like frame hung on the wall above. The guide booklet said the waxy stuff represented human fat; the rolling table, an embalming tray and the tools in the cabinet, embalming tools. The observer was supposed to reach and overcome the death taboo, called "The Morgue," the work aimed to fill the senses with revulsion and horror so that the viewer gradually lost his sensitivity to death...
...plight of the B-School students, we sympathize more with the plight of Cambridge, where 25 per cent of municipal employees are scheduled to lose their jobs this spring, and Boston, where 3000 or more workers face the axe. Administrators may point to the University's autonomous each-tub-on-its-own-bottom financial system and say it would be impossible to divert B-School funds for general use. The point, though, is that there is money around the University that could be forwarded to Cambridge without decreasing the quality of education...