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Greek pastries. As Benjamin Thompson, the architect who designed the complex, puts it: "The place is centered on the sight and smell of food, the cornerstone of human commerce...
Pressure from local citizens' groups and architects, however, convinced the Boston Redevelopment Authority that the markets could in fact be recycled-not pristinely restored as museum pieces but refurbished and adapted as living, working sources of tax revenues. The most energetic proponent of restoration, Architect Thompson began negotiating with real estate developers, and in 1974, the city of Boston leased Faneuil Hall Marketplace to the Rouse Co. of Columbia, Md. Only after the planners agreed to stagger the opening of the buildings (Quincy Market opened in August 1976, the South Market in August 1977) did the banks agree...
...where you have people in costumes catering to tourists." She adds: "We wanted the complex to be economically vital. If you get too many tourists coming through, they discourage the residents and then the merchants start selling little trinkets. You can't support a place with that." Most architects like the compromise. Says Architect George Notter: "A sense of the original buildings conies through with dignity and power...
...thbe Core, poked fun at what he saw as the Core's attempt to eliminate ignorance in all areas. Said Bossert: "The summed ignorance of this particular Faculty is evidence that ignorance is debilitating neither professionally nor personally." However Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History and another Core architect, who apparently does not care for Bossert's sense of humor, replied simply that the Core is not an attempt to survey all the major areas of knowledge," but instead a highlight of the most essential, "core" areas...
...when the gloves came off. The Task force's report set in motion the two-year sequence of events that culminated in last spring's Faculty vote to replace Gen Ed with a more detailed Core Curriculum. Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the architect of the Core proposal, calls the curriculum reform "an attempt to redirect the attention of the Faculty to the concerns of undergraduates"; others, such as Harrison C. White, professor of Sociology, termed it "a return to 1953 General Education," nothing more than a stiffening of existing requirements. The various arguments...