Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Upper Story is not an art gallery, a coffee house, or a bargain bookstore. Whatever esoteric appeal the gift shop had while situated on an upper story was lost when it moved to a street-level, plate-glass window site on Church Street. According to Mrs. Howe, who runs The Upper Story with her husband, "We're eight years old, actually, and I guess you might say we've grown right along with Harvard Square. We were located on the second floor in that little alleyway where the Coop bookstore is. We were the first of several second floor shops...
...Upper Story spreads through two rooms. The larger contains glassware, cutlery, furniture, salt and pepper shakers of assorted shapes and sizes, and several unusual imported items. Part of the smaller room is used for a greeting card display shelf which features the bizarre humor of the popular intellectual sort. The area just inside the display window contains enamelware, lamps, and hand-turned bowls, while woodwork lines the walls and shelves. "This part of the store," says Mrs. Howe, "we keep to display local crafts. There are so many galleries in the area now, and this is a gallery...
There is a large group of students at Harvard who have a general background in music, and who would benefit from upper-level courses which do not require two courses in harmony. There is also an annual body of Music 1 alumni who want to go on in music without concentrating. Not all of them are free Mondays at 11:00, but this is the only time the Music Department will accommodate them this spring...
...Since one out of five students in the upper fourth of their class drops out of high school before graduation and only one out of three of those left goes to college. HEW suggested that the U.S. provide 1) grants to the states on a fifty-fifty matching basis to set up statewide testing programs to identify gifted students early, 2) matching grants to help the states train more student counselors and 3) enough money for 10,000 college and university scholarships for able students who preferably have "good preparation in science and mathematics...
...with silver leaves. Midway in the first act, when she launched into the opera's most famed aria, Casta Diva, the house was hushed in taut expectancy. All of the familiar intensity was there, and the first notes were luminously clear. But as the aria moved into the upper registers, the voice seemed to darken and tremble. The audience responded with a mixture of hisses and bravos. Callas lifted one thin arm in a furious gesture of contempt...