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...Grolier is at once a splendid monument to poetry, an important part of Harvard history and a place of preservation for elusive collections and rare editions that would otherwise go unfound. But most of all, the Grolier is a community of writers and readers which has welcomed generations of Harvard students into its close circle in a way that even its looming neighbor, the Harvard Book Store, never will. As temporary residents of Cambridge, as students and as readers, we would do well to show support for such places; the services they provide are invaluable...

Author: By David W. Rizk, | Title: A Landmark of Literature Turns 75 | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" is that he realized there was no place else on earth to travel to. Or as a Walt Whitman character said in "Facing West from California's Shores": "Where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for The Future | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...despair in a paradise can be even deeper than in places where there are more concrete enemies or elements to fight. Walt Whitman ended his poem Facing West from California 's Shores: "But where is what I started for so long ago?/ And why is it yet unfound?" Nathanael West's classic portrayal of California madness, the mob scene in The Day of the Locust, shows the rage of those who fled the ordinariness of their lives. "Where else could they go but California, the land of sunshine and oranges?" he wrote. "Once there, they discovered that sunshine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: But Where Is What I Started For? | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...recounted a game he once worked that had the dubious distinction of lasting two days because of a leaky gym ceiling. The recollection was not an unfound one because the extra day prevented Diehl from attending a meeting of the Somerville Elks on the night the den was raided, the lodge leaders arrested, and the slot machine confiscated...

Author: By Robert I. W. sidorsky, | Title: Traffic Cops In Bloody-Nose Alley It's a long, hard climb from the snakepits to the ECAC big time. | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...scouring the nation for Harvard's 25th president-the still unfound successor to retiring Nathan M. Pusey-the university's governing corporation recently canvassed 200,000 Harvard alumni, students, faculty and employees. The answers revealed just how deep the divisions are among Harvard men about the recent uproars in Cambridge. The respondents' first choice was a symbol of Harvard's traditional moderate liberalism: John Gardner, former secretary of HEW and present head of the National Urban Coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hayakawa for Harvard? | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

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