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...Bastion for Books. In Boston, the problem was the city's 72-year-old Public Library, a stately Italian Renaissance-style palazzo designed by Charles McKim, senior partner of McKim, Mead & White, which presides augustly over Copley Square. So highly is the design regarded in the architectural profession that the American Institute of Architects voted it one of the best 50 buildings of the past 100 years. But the Public Library is today woefully overcrowded. To design a $22 million addition with room for 1,000 more readers and 3,000,000 more volumes, Mayor John Collins...
...SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and RIGHT YOU ARE. Sheridan's bastion of busybodies provides a showcase for the comic talents of the APA repertory company, and Pirandello's dramatic investigation into the nature of reality affords them the opportunity to keep the philosophical ball rolling with a light touch...
...SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL was Richard Sheridan's bastion of busybodies, and is today a classroom of high comedy and a showcase for the A PA repertory company...
...rented the entire fifth floor and posted armed guards to keep newsmen away. Was the tenant really Hughes? Reporters picked up a trail when they heard that Hughes was spirited off by private train to Las Vegas and carried on a stretcher at 4 a.m. to a penthouse bastion at the Desert Inn. The hotel doesn't even show that he is registered, and a spokesman put out the word: "He's never been in better health." But then how would the spokesman know...
...popular tutors in the College. But his popularity never really extended into the ranks of student "radicals." They did not dislike him; Frank and the young leftists just didn't know each other very well. Many of Frank's undergraduate connections are in Winthrop House, never known as a bastion of radicalism. Moreover, Frank was not tempermentally inclined to seek out students on the left. Though he worked in Mississippi for COFO in the summer of 1964, he had not, like many civil rights workers, cut his ties with conventional politics. Far from it, he remained a Regular Democrat (capital...