Word: 54th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phalanx of non-Black Harvardians who dedicated their lives to the furthering of universal freedom. Black Harvardians have an opportunity to share the tradition of John Quincy Adams who defended the Black liberation, Cinque, of the absolutionists Emerson, Longfellow and Thoreau. Robert could Shaw volunteered to lead the Black 54th Massachusetts regiment into battle and was killed in a bloody assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. Shaw was buried in a mass grave with his slain troops. His family wrote. "He could have no finer honor...
With an array of dignitaries behind him and the largest inauguration crowd in the city's history in front, Raymond L. Flynn yesterday morning became Boston 54th mayor and the city's first new mayor in 16 years...
Rejected, Adams returns to Washington at the end of this volume in a state of suspension between futility and despair. On the eve of his 54th birthday, he has no idea that he has yet to write Education, the masterpiece on which his enduring fame will rest...
Bunshaft's Lever House consisted of two glass slabs. A one-story horizontal slab, partly on stilts, is laid parallel to Park Avenue. A 24-story vertical slab intersects the horizontal one and faces East 54th Street. The openings under the stilts lead to an interior court. The building occupies only 25% of the permissible space, for dramatic effect and to let light into the offices...
...retrospect, Bunshaft's abstract sculpture reflects the anti-urban bias of the early modern movement. Its vertical slab interrupts the building line along East 54th Street. Such disruption is now considered detrimental to an orderly street pattern. And the court Bunshaft created is uninviting and mostly empty...