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...maybe a protective tarp or two. But both students and Harvard staff agree that their neglect is due less to student apathy than to a dearth of readily available information about these works.Tucked away near the sunken entrance to Pusey Library lies an Alexander Calder stabile, an abstract wrought-iron construction entitled “Onion” and completed in 1965. In another quiet corner of the Yard sits Henry Moore’s harmonious 1972 sculpture “Four Piece Reclining Figure.” This statue is especially inconspicuous during the winter months, when it usually...
...next week. The pair is gearing up for a U.S. tour: Instead of the 75-seat clubs and bars The Swell Season played last year, they'll be headlining venues like Radio City Music Hall and the Coachella Music Festival. There was one other blessing the film wrought - Hansard and Irglova fell in love while promoting Once last spring...
Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset of Stanford's Hoover Institution thinks the "destabilization of belief systems" wrought by the Viet Nam War helped propel the sexual revolution along. The end of the war and the onset of a recession, he says, brought "a movement back to more stability" and a turn away from far-out sex in the mid-'70s. British Journalist Henry Fairlie, an astute observer of the American scene, thinks the tinkering with personal life-styles that characterized the '60s and early '70s inevitably bred distaste for further social change. "Endless questioning of all aspects of life from food...
...almost the entirety of the past year. For a quite while, I could not understand this. Were America’s progressives really not going to stand up for their beliefs? Didn’t any Clinton supporter remember the disastrous results that this style of political meandering had wrought in the previous two elections? Was I just a nutcase, a sexist, or even worse—Mike Gravel...
...This year, travel has been particularly grueling, as some of the heaviest snowstorms in recent memory have wrought destruction and misery in 14 of China's provinces. The Ministry of Civil affairs announced on Monday that 24 people had died in storm-related accidents, including 10 in collapsed houses. On Tuesday, 25 people were killed when a bus slid off an icy road in southwestern Guizhou province, the state-run Xinhua News Service reported. Some 80 million people have been affected by the storm, 1 million of them having had to be relocated. Damage, including the collapse...