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Life was reduced to the daily alternation between huddling in dark apartments and standing in line for hours to fill water containers, which would then be carted home in baby carriages, wheelchairs and trolleys. The war interfered with every act, even one as innocuous as looking out the window; most glass panes were shattered months ago and have been replaced by opaque plastic sheets...
...housing form which I had just received in the mail, I would not get to participate in the decades-old tradition of living in the yard. I would not be allowed to rise each morning to the tolling of the Memorial Church bell or to look out my window at the splendor of Widener Library. I was fated to be unlike the rest of my classmates. I had been singled out. They knew that I was one of the "mistakes...
...world's greater understatements, Bunting's architectural book notes that the "Science Center is not entirely satisfactory from a visual standpoint." Designed in 1970, the building was financed largely by Edwin Land of the Polaroid Corporation. Many a Harvard students have peered out a Canaday window, trying to locate the building's flash and shutter...
...much guidance as their kids do. Says UCLA psychologist Patricia Marks Greenfield: "Parents tend to opt out after Sesame Street. They don't research what the good programs are." Notes Daniel Anderson, a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "For children, television is a window to the world. Parents should control, limit and regulate television exactly as much as they control, limit and regulate other things the child does-like taking lessons, like eating, like being outside." Indeed, too many parents are like the Man in the Yellow Hat in Margret and Hans Rey's Curious...
Shopping enthusiasts and window shoppers alikewill find paradise on Newbury Street (T: Boylston,greenline) and Copley (T: Copley, green line...