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...escalated the commitment, Lyndon Johnson cautioned, in his typically gaudy rhetoric, that defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary and a pivotal architect of the war, confess that "we were wrong, terribly wrong"?cold comfort for the families of the 60,000 names on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. Senator Max W. Cleland of Georgia, a paraplegic veteran, said McNamara's book should have been titled Sorry 'Bout That...
...participants. “I think the arts are very much alive at Harvard! Just as one example, I have the pleasure of walking through the Carpenter Center every day on my way to work and home and in that one spot—designed by a wonderfully eccentric architect who wanted passerby to see the insides of the place—I can take in so much. There’s always an exhibition, great film posters and up above, a glimpse into the studios.” Although she does find a lack of participation among the general...
Japanese intellectuals discussed French poetry and English novels, an education minister proposed English as the new national language, and Japanese counts, marquesses and barons waltzed with their wives at the Deer Cry Pavilion, a pretentious Italianate building, designed by a British architect named Josiah Conder. All this in the name of "civilization," that is, Western civilization. To be civilized was to be modern, and to be modern was to be Western. And this extraordinary new hybrid culture - not widely shared in less privileged Japanese circles, it is true - was at least partly meant to elicit positive Western views of Japan...
...subsequent four months, we will focus on Science and Medicine; Culture and Society; Business and Technology; and Politics and Community. CNN will air five one-hour specials on the choices. By the time we finish in November, we will have a wonderfully eclectic list, from America's best architect to America's best Governor to America's best athlete...
...million on a renovation that included specially padded chairs, ceiling panels, a padded back wall and triple-insulated glass between dining room and kitchen. "We worried it would be too loud," says Evans. "But you can talk softly when it's full." At another new Manhattan restaurant, Chinoiserie, architect Wid Chapman upholstered the ceiling and padded the back wall to mitigate the waterfall's rush and DJ's tunes. And at Azie, in San Francisco, architect Cass Calder Smith installed acoustical tiles below the ceiling and carpeting in the mezzanine...