Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS COLLECTION of programmes, rehearsal and production photos, and other memorabilia has been on display since October, but the publicity has been obscure (apt enough for Beckett, who's always agilely sought privacy, impatient reclusive misanthropic, niggardly and unwasteful about his vitality...
...nearly two years Joan has been struggling alone to recover. Early in 1978 she moved to a spacious apartment in Boston's Back Bay, devoid of political memorabilia but graced by a Steinway baby grand. It is, she told her children, "Mommy's apartment, not Daddy's." She strained to make a life of her own; studying for a master's degree in education at Lesley College, fund raising for the arts, even dating a few "safe...
...coconut shell on which Naval Lieutenant Kennedy carved a call for help after PT-109 was sunk by a Japanese destroyer off Guadalcanal in 1943. Under the supervision of former Kennedy Aide and Curator David Powers, the library has amassed a collection that includes 13,000 objects of Kennedy memorabilia (including an alligator desk set given Kennedy by General Charles de Gaulle and a gold-and-silver bowl presented by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie). There are also 28 million pages of documents, 115,000 still photographs, 24,000 volumes and 1,200 recorded interviews. One million visitors are expected annually...
...halo-were out on the streets too. Vendors were following the Fisher of Souls from city to city like a flock of seagulls. Pope buttons, two for $5, pens, medallions, portraits suitable for framing, Vatican flags, pennants proclaiming WELCOME POPE JOHN PAUL II: oceans of junk, rivers of memorabilia. Despite the Pontiffs preaching against materialism, the hucksters were out in full force...
...conflict goes all the way back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who established a policy for presidents to donate their papers and memorabilia to the National Archives. In November 1961, then President Kennedy announced that, in keeping with tradition, he would ask a committee of friends and officials to begin planning the building that would house his papers and mementoes. But Kennedy attached a condition to his announcement; he asked that his presidential library be "closely associated" with his almamater--Harvard. Shortly thereafter, White House officials sat down with University spokesmen to explore the issues...