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When President Bok took office, he and the Corporation assembled an almost entirely new staff in Mass Hall. Dean Rosovsky didn't have that luxury; the people working under him had all served under the awe-inspiring, pressure-cooker deanship of John T. Dunlop, and Rosovsky had a lot of expectations to live up to. He seems to have done a good job of impressing his staff, who for the most part seem, like most of us, to be more Rosovsky-type than Dunlop-type people. The U-Hall staff this year has been fairly low-key and relaxed, like...
...third, the Kennedy Library Corp. has preserved the museum at the expense of the library. Architect I.M. Pei provided enough space for only 6 million of the 22 million documents which form the Kennedy collection, but found room for a vast, open reception area to be filled with an awe-inspiring bust and inscription set against a view of the Charles River...
...this "study" is not merely a layman's guide to technology; it examines the diverse ways modern man relates to his mechanical environment: through embittered helplessness that generates awe and estrangement, through indifference and waste, through blind utilitarian lens and through care and insight. The attitudes are realized in narrative and description as well as in the strands of Pirsig's philosophic discourses...
Perhaps from an excess of loyalty, zeal and awe of the presidency, Petersen appeared eager to give the White House every break he could. He was used to undermine his own investigation. On March 21, Nixon asked John Dean why the Assistant Attorney General had "played the game so straight with us." Said Dean: "Petersen is a soldier. He kept me informed. He told me when we had problems, where we had problems and the like. I don't think he has done anything improper, but he did make sure that the investigation was narrowed down to the very, very...
...even run for five blocks without starting to pant," one woman bystander said, in awe of the straining marathoners in front of her. To the right, a man explained to his son that this year Americans were winning...