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Last week's violence was touched off by the shotgun assassination of one FLOSY supporter and a bomb blast that killed three young sons of its leader, Abdul Qawee Mackawee, who is in self-imposed exile in the Egyptian-controlled part of Yemen. Later, two snipers in a mosque...
Many years ago and far away when mastodons loomed large in Braintree and I was a callow Yardling, people at Harvard knew motion pictures from weekend escapism, late-night television, or reading period orgies at the Brattle. Movies killed time and blew your mind. They were a cheap date. True...
Cloistered Eliot House has only one entrance. The House Committee has to struggle each year to obtain Finley's permission to leave open a gate leading to Memorial Drive. The main archway is guarded, fittingly enough, by a superintendent in a three-piece suit with a gold watch fob. Within...
There is a story about Finley, probably apocryphal. Out for a brisk morning walk along the River Charles, the Master espied two Cantabridgian fisherman. Flinging his arm up in a classical pose, he saluted, "Salve pescatores." One of the unbelieving townies turned around and growled, "Screw you, Mac." But, after...
The Fugs, who experiment in theatre as well as song, received guarded praise in an article by drama critic Elizabeth Hardwick in the Dec. 13 New York Review of Books.