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...stack away, in stall C-6, sits living proof of the Scholar's words. "Yeah, I keep coming back to this desk," says John Driscoll '82-3. "It's got the least amount of inane graffiti. There's wonderful choice of messages over there"--he gestures to Kyriazis's stall--"and over here is a long discussion of Radcliffe women." But why this particular row of desks--Harvard has more than 100 libraries? Driscoll looks up from the pile of cards and papers and books in front of him--an Ec 1550 term paper-to-be. "Because it's subterranean...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A Desk of One's Own | 1/6/1982 | See Source »

...collective arsenals seem undiminished. Dutch owns ten guns; his brother Elliott, who Dutch says was once "meaner than a striped snake," has 18. Belle has a .38, and another Hatfield, nearly 80, keeps a revolver in his office. When the mood strikes him, he swivels and fires into a stack of books in the corner. The people of the valley know from experience that some folks have a native wildness that is not to be trifled with. Even smiling, gracious Belle has a measure of congenital menace. Says her cousin Dutch: "I believe if you got her down to business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appalachia: Hatfields and McCoys | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...defies the spirit of a college production to stack the cast with ringers, of whatever talent. The Gilbert and Sullivan Players is the only theater group on campus that shies away from filling its ranks with undergraduates; what they gain in vocal talent, they more than lose in raw, youthful enthusiasm and appeal. In this production, at least, the players would have done well to turn their recruiting energies to the orchestra, which sounds regrettably soggy under Todd Ellison's direction, and the lighting, which, in Gil Ohana's design, seems to follow the rock-concert theory of brightening...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Prudence at Penzance | 12/8/1981 | See Source »

...ashes where his authoritative parents once stood. Gilliam leaves us with Black Humor when all along his theme had been gallantry and inquisitiveness. The guest stars have their fun, the midgets get back their divine employment. But Kevin is on his own in the world, with only a stack of postcards--enough to tell him he was there, to confront him with the brutal fact that he's back here...

Author: By --david M. Handelman, | Title: A Victim of the Modern Age | 11/6/1981 | See Source »

...Honda was traced to another longtime activist. In the Brooklyn flat of Eve Rosahn, 30, detectives found a stack of leftist pamphlets and a poster of fugitive B.L.A. Ringmaster Joanne Chesimard, 34. Rosahn, it happens, was arraigned in Queens criminal court last week for violent demonstrations against a U.S. tour by South Africa's Springboks rugby team in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bullets from the Underground | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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