Word: make-shift
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...properties and costumes are a hodgepodge of tailor-made objects and hand-me-downs altered slightly for the play. Their make-shift nature is not a disadvantage. Free from the dazzling technical equipage of the Loeb's main theater, the Ex affords an atmosphere in which an audience can concentrate at close range on the crucial aspects -- the acting and the meaning of the text -- of a difficult play like The Philanderer. In this atmosphere, the experiment at the Ex this weekend, if not completely successful, is worth performing...
Instead of attempting make-shift reforms, the Faculty should strike at the heart of the problem--the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities. Students should have equal voice in the rewriting of the document, after which the question of its implementation can be considered anew. Only in this way can the Faculty substantively back up its professed commitment to the maintenance of a free and open community of scholars with reciprocal rights and responsibilities...
...years will be dealt with by renovations" that will add 50 extra beds at the Radcliffe Quad and 25 to 50 extra beds in The Harvard ("Renovations" means the partitioning of existing rooms and the installation bunk beds). When three years are up however. Harvard will run out of make-shift possibilities new construction will be a necessity...
Last night's talk came after a one-hour delay during which Currier House residents scrambled to assemble a make-shift public address system to cover the overflow crowd. Reading from a prepared text Buckley quickly smoothed the impatient audience with a anecdotes of his trip to China...
...reception was held on the second floor of the Pound Building in a spacious room covered by a plush, orange wall-to-wall carpet. Bowls of pretzels, potato chips and shrimp lined every table. Directly in front of the door was a make-shift bar manned by two students who graciously mixed drinks for all comers. The majority of Law School students sat together in small circles, sipping gin and tonics and delicately chewing shrimp. In the corner of the room, just behind the bar, stood the New Crusader, surrounded by two of his attorneys, several reporters and a couple...