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...Since the Corporation approved the GSD's request to apply for federal funds, Harvard has welcomed its 25th president, a new GSD and an almost new Design School faculty. Perhaps the only group that stayed with the project from start to finish has been the design firm, Andrews-Anderson-Baldwin of Toronto Canada...
There were times however, when the design team wondered whether the building would ever make it to Dedication Day. The first relationship with the GSD faculty, strained best deteriorate are during the crucial period just before bids went out in 1969. Edward R. Baldwin, who acred as partner-in-charge for the firm, said the most difficult obstacle was obtaining any faculty cooperation...
Further delays occurred when certain design changes were ordered after construction was already underway. "Prior to Dean Kilbridge's appointment in 1969, the faculty was very apathetic. Then, with construction already started, some of the faculty suddenly became interested," Baldwin explained...
Coles' essays on James Baldwin and Lester Maddox as victims of their own rhetoric are also statements on his own methodology, his need to be specific. "I can't stand all the abstracting," he has said. "The Marxist-Freudian blueprints...
...Baldwin the complex artist too of ten succumbs to Baldwin the propagandist and fantasist. When he calls America the Fourth Reich, he sounds as if fascism were a completed fact rather than a terrifying possibility. And when he speaks of "Martin" or "Malcolm," there is a touch of envy in his reverence. It is almost as if Baldwin would rather break the apron strings of his beautiful prose style and become a martyr himself. · R.Z.S...