Word: antlered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disposal, Heston has vowed to wage "a cultural war" in which gun control is only the first line of skirmish. At issue is nothing less than how Americans define themselves. From a wall festooned with flintlock rifles, Heston takes down a skinning knife made from a deer antler. "It was given to me when I was made a blood brother of the Miniconjou Sioux in 1951," he explains. He fingers it lovingly. And then the actor, who traces his Scots ancestors back to 18th century Canada, exclaims with sudden passion, "I'm pissed off when Indians say they're Native...
Kudos go to the University and its architects, who did a fine job balancing the old and the new. The old feeling is maintained through iconic touches like antler chandeliers, plaster casts of the old ceiling and busts of John Harvard and George Washington. But the new structure is evident in the C'est Bon cafe, the meeting rooms, the bright offices and the useful classroom space...
...antler chandelier remains. It now hangs in a light and airy central stair hall which is decorated in white and green. Like the huge oil painting of the building's original donor that hangs in the same space, it serves as a reminder of what the Freshman Union was, not what the Barker Center...
...classmates right now. I believe that we who have no trouble appreciating the achievements of the past can avoid being awestruck to the point of inactivity. Emerson provides the answer in his journal, a copy of which he evidently left in our room, like a snowflake from the antler of Blitzen or one of Santa's whiskers. It is the last part of the same entry on the wall of the Science Center gate...
...chair and secretary of the group, Tweed Roosevelt '64 (great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who donated the antler chandeliers which have illuminated the Great Hall for decades) and H.A. Crosby Forbes '50, the commit- tee members wrote over 100 letters to President Neil L. Rudenstine, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles and Director of Planning for FAS Philip J. Parsons...