Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within, Memorial Center is designed around an open central-courtyard plaza. The main gallery is 120 ft. by 50 ft. Enough lighting fixtures have been built into the ceiling to turn the building into a blazing beacon at night, but Architect Saarinen broke with the modern tendency to seal off gallery space from outside light, left two wide glass areas so that the lake can be kept in view even while looking at pictures...
...shabbily dressed men who have wild ideas and long hair. While these interpretations are oversimplifications, these two types do represent the spectrum of Harvard College. Both the Harvard man with the vest and the one with the long hair are an important part of the College. And while both Beacon Hill and Greenwich Village have their advantages it would be extremely unfortunate for the College to represent only one of these types...
Stores which so far will honor the club's credit cards are Chez Dreyfus and the Treeland Flower Shop in Cambridge; Simon and Sons Clothiers in Boston; Jack Williams Magic Gardens in Fresh Pond; Monticello Rest on Route 9; Robin Hood's Ten Acres on Route 20; and the Beacon Liquor Corporation in Brighton...
...publishing Slanted News, the Beacon Press has performed a notable service for thoughtful Americans. This slim but meaty volume constitutes the first valid survey of the question of bias in our country's newspapers. (Its author, now a copy editor on the Boston evening Traveler, was formerly sports editor of the Harvard Crimson, graduated from the College in 1943, and took a master's degree from the Harvard Business School...
...Beacon Hill is a mixture now. On one side are famous old homes with lofty stairways and small, purple window panes, these on Beacon Street and around Louisburg Square, where carolers come on Christmas Eve. On the other side are cheap tenements, some half empty, and between, the apartments of Beacon Hill's persistent, self-styled artists' colony. Just in back of Beacon Hill is Scollay Square, which is not, anyone will tell you, what it used to be. After the war there weren't as many sailors, and then one Thursday night the Crawford House burned down, and Boston...