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Last week was not the first time Rosovsky bowedout of consideration for the presidency of a majoruniversity. In 1977, he was invited to becomepresident of Yale, but declined the post in orderto stay on as dean at Harvard, where he was thenoccupied as primary architect of the CoreCurriculum...
...convinced communist. For some that may be fantasy but for me it is my main goal." For those who follow the travails of Mikhail Gorbachev, that forthright credo, proclaimed last December, is increasingly shadowed by questions of apostasy. Is this guardian of Marxism really a true believer or the architect of a final loss of faith...
...procrastination has had less to do with political attitudes toward F.D.R. than with bickering over the size of the monument. The design by San Francisco landscape architect Lawrence Halprin was finally approved by the Commission of Fine Arts, which had accepted a larger version of the concept in 1978. It took a plea last fall by Florida Congressman Claude Pepper, who had been a Senator when F.D.R. was President, to get a $5.8 million appropriation | passed to begin the $47 million project. Terminally ill with cancer, Pepper got out of bed to make his pitch in his last public appearance...
Kohl, who has emerged as a leading architect of the post-Cold War Europe, insisted the United States must play a crucial role in turning the remnants of East Bloc communism into democracy...
...Harvard Film Archive is in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, on Quincy Street. The Carpenter Center is a semi-spiral lump of concrete, and is one of the few North American examples of work by the renowned architect Le Corbusier. It's ugly, but people will still think you're uncultured if you criticize it, simply because it's famous...