Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many ways, the place is a successful, student-created home away from home. Residents eat home-cooked meals and fresh bread every night at 6:30 p.m. around a single wooden table. Chores are distributed by a simple point system and food comes in the form of bulk shipments from a commercial food cooperative, as well as shareholder dividends from a nearby farm. Casimira F. Walker '98 handles the food ordering each week and estimates that weekly supplies cost $800 or so. The only problem, it appears, is that the farm dividends allow no preferences for type of produce. Residents...
...even their own "COOP." A film-making student a few years ago built an elaborate backyard henhouse for a movie he was making, but fellow co-op residents, concerned about the animals, allowed them all to escape. The chickens and VES concentrator may be gone, but the graying wooden structure remains as an amusing testament to a very different and oft-unappreciated type of Harvard life...
...this Saturday, the venerable--and venerated--relic will be slipped out of the silver casket that has protected it for centuries, through fire and water, doubt and blind belief. Gingerly, fastidiously, overseen by Giovanni Cardinal Saldarini and a German textile conservation expert, it will be unspooled from around its wooden cylinder. After a top cloth has been pulled away--red taffeta, sewn by Princess Clotilde of Savoy in 1868--the fragile, scarred length of ancient linen will be smoothed into place in a metal-and-glass display case built precisely to its dimensions. The case's air will be drawn...
...rooms in the three-story "hotel" wing are identical--clean, simple and separate from the monks' cells. There is no telephone, carpet or television set, just a small wooden cross above a pine writing desk, a washbasin, a curtained closet, a small bed and a reading light. The bathrooms are at the end of the corridors. Guests are asked to keep their rooms and the bathrooms clean and to help with the dishes after each meal...
...decor is equally incoherent. Rusty license plates and an old clock advertising dog food hang alongside the display of Calvin Klein hosiery. Outside the dressing rooms looms a bizarre vintage shoe-shine chair, and in the back of the store, a fine antique wooden armoire is surrounded by pairs and pairs of Doc Martens...