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Chemically, the decay that Cline so dramatically presents is due to the "acid paper" books were printed on beginning in the 1800s up until the 1950s. But exacerbating the acid paper problem--which causes the books literally to bake--is the lack of climate control in the stacks...
While Harvard struggles to find money to install a climate control system, much of the Widener collection continues to decay because of the way paper was milled beginning in the 1800s up until the 1950s...
August Wilson's "Fences" provocatively delineates main events in the life of a black family in the 1950s. The success of the production stems primarily from the excellent lead, Shannon Bryant '99, who plays Troy Maxson, a garbage collector whose race foils his dreams of playing major league baseball. Fortunately, the supporting characters also hold their...
...members of the Ad Board fail to realize that Harvard--despite how much they might dislike the idea--is no longer in the 1950s. Because the penalties the Ad Board assesses are so harsh, the rulings it hands down are a patchwork of different penalties and it is only the unlucky--not the most guilty--who get punished...
...same with professional sports. My tenth grade math teacher in New York is the world's second biggest Dodgers fan (behind Danny Kaye). He was a big fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers back in the 1940s and 1950s, one of the New York liberals who started following the Dodgers after they signed Jackie Robinson...