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Though no longer the undisputed cynosure of American architecture, the GSD, which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year, can still claim to be one of the nation's leaders in architecture, landscape design, and city planning...
...elitism of yesteryear has waned, but in many ways, Harvard students are still the chosen few. As evidenced by the national and international press coverage of the 350th birthday party earlier this month, America and the world have definite opinions about Harvard and its mystique...
...technology to supersede humanistic values ("A good man, as the Greeks would say, is a nobler work than a good technologist"). The American Cantabrigians were duly charmed, and while Charles went on to the rest of his brief, sans-Di U.S. visit, they resumed their four-day-long birthday party...
While the rest of Harvard was starting to quiver with pre-350th birthday preparations, Bok spent one of his last weeks in August rafting down the Colorado River with his three children: Hilary, 27, Victoria, 24, and Thomas, 17. (His wife Sissela, a professor of philosophy at Brandeis and author of two well-received books, Lying and Secrets, normally accompanies him on such expeditions but had to go to Sweden to visit her ailing father, the famous sociologist Gunnar Myrdal.) Bok has always been an athletic sort of academician. A basketball star as well as a Phi Beta Kappa...
...done. Wilson kept careful lists of what he read and what he thought about it. This was the period when he gathered together many of his earlier essays in Classics and Commercials (1950), The Shores of Light (1952) and Red, Black, Blond and Olive (1956). His 60th birthday in 1955 prompted him to offer A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty (1956). Though this may seem a rather heterogeneous outpouring, there was an underlying coherence. "Much of Wilson's postwar energy," as David Castronovo has written in a critical biography, "was devoted to the analysis of the Western power...