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The Dow of Professional Sports
Traditionally, the best tickets put you nearest the action, but here in the skybox, we look down, as if from an aerie, on the baseball game...
"City-building" for an Urban Campus
As Harvard raises new buildings and begins thinking about its future presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing...
A Matter of Place
Eason Cross '47, M.Arch. '51, has an architectural project in mind, although he may not be able to get to it as soon as he would like. He wants...
The Early Days of the H-bomb
If we build it, we lay the groundwork for acts of mass destruction and violence toward mankind. But if we don't build it, we leave ourselves...
The Law concerning Kite Flying on Massachusetts Beaches
Chip Samuels is blowing up trophy houses on Cape Cod in Spectacular Happiness (Scribner, $25), a novel by Peter D. Kramer '70, M.D. '76...
Addressing Allston
The wish list for Harvard's recently acquired 100 acres in Allston is long and growing: graduate-student housing, a museum, conceivably a whole...
The Accidental Agriculturist
Up to a point, the vita of John G. Bemis '68 looks like that of a classic preppy. Born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, the first-born son...
Boogie-Woogie
It's a small exhibition, but a bit of a blockbuster. "Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings" focuses on a group of 17 paintings that...
The Builder
Several summers ago, at an idyllic weekend of chamber music in Marlboro, Vermont, Neil Rudenstine asked me if we could meet between concerts for...
Kick Kennedy and Evelyn Waugh
Amanda Smith '89, A.M. '92, is a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard. She is also the granddaughter of Joseph P. Kennedy '12 and the editor...
Events
THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, at the Loeb Drama Center from June 19 through July...