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...Kevin J. Avery '84, "what hurt the most was what they did to Harvard Square Theater." It used to be a run-down, one-screen auditorium which featured only second-hand double features and occasional live productions--such as the stage version of Rocky Horror Picture Show, which came in October of freshman year...
...interesting facts from around the world and establishing a Forum on ideas of national interest. The monthly that had won the 1983 National Magazine Award for General Excellence was going to cut back on its essays and polemics, admit that jounalism was at its nadir, and begin dealing in second-hand short forms and juxtapositions of images...
Another option open to price-conscious students is to search for used books. Several stores carry second-hand texts, including the Coop itself, which buys books being used in the current semester from students at 50 percent of the original price. Harvard Book Store sells used editions at a 25 percent discount and the Starr Book Shop on Bow St. sells books at 40 to 60 percent off. The selection is limited in all three cases, but Harvard Book Store offers a good supply of Penguin Books, and the Starr carries a wide selection of "classic scholarly books...
...nickname, "Coop," didn't catch on for several months--for business at 13 Harvard Row (next to Church Street). The stock of the new store was meager; according to an early history of the Coop by former Business School professor N.S.B. Gras, it offered only "stationery and some second-hand books...
...best observation on the opera's difficulties comes from none other than Melville. The heading of Chapter 40 of The Confidence-Man reads, "In which the story of China Aster is at second-hand told by one who, while not disapproving the moral, disclaims the spirit of the style." The grimly humorous spirit of Melville is missing from the opera, with nothing substantive to replace...