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...replicating an old form at inappropriately huge size. The interior spaces are modest (no more than about 14,000 sq. ft. per floor), and an intricately detailed exterior suggests a bygone age, not any particular building or style. Four metal grids, each bolted at an upswept angle to the 60th floor, provide a classically inspired, yet unequivocally modern top. "We picked up threads of the past," says Pelli, "with a contemporary technology and contemporary sensibility...
Born Again--Venerable President Derek C. Bok apparently was less than thrilled about his 60th birthday two weeks ago. In fact, he told a Crimson reporter he felt "awful." But never one for self-pity, the new sextagenarian set out to reclaim some of his lost youth over Spring Break--in Bermuda. Bok told the Crimson he had a blast on his tropical vacation, and especially enjoyed riding mopeds with his daughter...
Coin fanciers responded excitedly in 1986 when Japan began issuing its first gold coins since World War II. Minted by the Bank of Japan to commemorate the | 60th year of Emperor Hirohito's reign, the 24-karat pieces were coveted by collectors even though the Ministry of Finance set the price of the 20-gram coins at 100,000 yen (now $690) -- more than twice the value of their weight in gold. To meet heavy demand, Japan minted 11 million coins...
...popular image of the orchestra conductor is that of a grand seigneur: imperious, authoritarian and, more often than not, old. Concert music, goes the conventional wisdom, is something so emotionally and spiritually complex that no one who has not reached at least his 60th year can possibly plumb its depths. What Beethoven, who died at 56, Mozart, who died at 35, or Schubert, who died at 31, would have thought of this manifestly ridiculous proposition hardly needs asking...
...Well, three events converged to get me to spend three years on this book. The first was the death of my father, which after all, reminds all of us of our own horizon; my 60th birthday, which kind of says, you know, it ain't no dress rehearsal anymore; and third was the birth of a granddaughter which focused me a bit on posterity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer ((a German martyr of the Nazi regime)) said once that the test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. Now that kind of crystallized my view that...