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...going to heaven and Vandyck is of the company--in other words, how good life seemed, how sweet its rewards, how trivial this grudge or that grievance, how admirable friendship and the society of one's kind, as, lighting a good cigarette, one sunk among the cushions in the window-seat...
...exhibition of designs at the Academy, where visitors can vote for their favorite. Part of the attraction is no doubt novelty. Only 10 inhabited bridges remain in Europe out of hundreds built before the 16th century--an era when, for sanitary reasons, running water beneath one's window was a notable amenity. Finished in 1209, Old London Bridge boasted not only houses but shops, inns, mills and the decapitated heads of traitors until the 1750s, when the homes were removed because city planners decided that dropping waste into the river wasn't such a swell idea after...
...scant sunlight that enters the room because your half-naked physique might offend a passer-by. And, if it is afternoon and you can reasonably assume no "inappropriateness" will be going on, your open shades are greeted by telephoto lenses and the criss-cross pattern of the window screen on a stranger's nose...
Almost every Harvard student was one of those tourists once, being photographed next to the Statue of the Three Lies, squinting at the Science Center to make out its Polaroid influences or cupping their hands over a window, trying to glimpse the lifestyle and secrets of the Harvard Student. Harvard is a place of tradition, and tourists, I gather, are a perennial tradition. So we should let the tradition continue. Just let them know the only barrier between tourists and Harvard students is something that they create--and something that traps us as well...
...University officials say they are frightened that an adverse Supreme Court ruling might throw their entire philosophy of diversity in education out the window...