Word: watertown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., for a memorial museum. This plan never had a chance. Administrators at both the Kennedy Center and the library opposed it. To save the archives, the University would have had to come up with its own plan, possibly favoring a nearby Watertown site for the entire complex, or offering to subsidize construction of the archives here. But it instead rejected taking a dynamic role in the decision process and relied on the vain hope that Kennedy allegiances to Harvard would overcome the infeasibility of the plan they backed...
...everything he was not: dignified, dedicated, the last survivor of the lost, drunken literary generation. What was more, there was a tenuous connection between the two men. Wilson's final years had been spent restoring his ancestral stone house in Talcottville, not far from Exley's native Watertown, N.Y. Exley had never met Wilson, but then he had barely met Gifford. His mission was clear: sober up and pay tribute to the better...
...just because the golfers don't bash their heads against dummies every day or run to Watertown and back doesn't mean that golf is not a sport. Just because they practice at a country club doesn't mean that it's all a picnic for McConnell and company...
...impact statment also considered 36 alternative sites for the library, including the Watertown arsenal and the Charlestown Naval Yard...
...There is the worry that calculators-like the new math-could create more problems than they solve. Some teachers-usually those who have not used them-fear that calculators may produce a generation of mathematical illiterates who would be lost without their machines. John Kounjain, mathematics director for the Watertown, Mass., public schools, calls the use of calculators "kind of ridiculous. You can't give the students a $19 calculator and then forget about teaching them the four basic functions." William Geo, a Denver math supervisor, says he gets an adverse reaction from some older teachers "who think that...