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...Assembly Hall was financed by two bond issues, the interest on the bonds being paid out of student fees. Opened about a year and a half ago, the mushroom-shaped concrete structure has a capacity of 16,000 permanent seats. The university also plans a $14 million Max Abramovitz-designed center for performing arts with four diversified auditoriums for music, ballet and experimental theater...
Another Oxford? Bowen has brought the same vitality to Iowa since his appointment last spring. Already in progress is $60 million worth of new construction, including a fine arts center designed by Harrison & Abramovitz. Planning for a big state university was surprisingly similar to the needs of Grinnell, Bowen discovered. "I just had to add another digit...
...Murray explained it all in her own profane way: "We fled persecution. We fled for our god-damned lives." The persecution, as she put it, began a month ago when a Baltimore anesthetist named Leonard Abramovitz and his wife accused Madalyn of inducing their 17-year-old daughter Susan to give up her Jewish faith and move into the Murray household. A Baltimore court placed the girl in the custody of her aunt and uncle, and forbade the Murrays to have any contact with her. Instead of staying with her relatives, a fortnight ago, Susan upped and married Madalyn...
...Library-Study Center was designed by New York architect Max Abramovitz along the general lines recommended by a trustees' committee after two years of library-visiting, and by a committee of librarians. Abramovitz's former projects include Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall, Columbia University's Law School and Library, and the master plan for Brandeis...
...massive. Where in 1939 France's imposing showcase rose like a grandstand beside the Lagoon of Nations, now stands IBM's egg, poised above a fantastic forest of steel trees. Across the pool, hovers the huge coffin-on-props of the Bell Telephone building, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz and Henry Dreyfus...