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...still imagines that modernism is not the official culture of our day, not the secular religion of the U.S., this project will dispel those last illusions. The wing, named for the late co- founder of the Reader's Digest, who was the largest donor, cost $26 million to build and will require an additional $2 million a year for operating expenses. One does not go spending such amounts on the marginal and the controversial -- on what modernism used to be when the chairman of the Met's 20th century department, William S. Lieberman, 62, formerly of MOMA, was scarcely...
...Brien emphasizes instead that the first task is to build a consensus that something must be done, rather than adopting any particular solution...
...THAT HARVARD has offered on land occupied by the St. Paul's parish rectory and parking lot at the corner of Mount Auburn and DeWolfe Streets includes plans to build some subsidized housing on the site. The University's main priority remains more housing for its own affiliates. But its willingness to provide some low-income housing--in the Cambridge market it has helped to inflate--speaks for the efforts of the neighborhood and Harvard groups that have pressured the University on its development plans in recent years...
Regardless of the University's motives, this year's bid to build some low-income homes is a far cry from Harvard's putting up metal grates to prevent the homeless from taking shelter on Leverett House heat vents last year. Of course the St. Paul's lot is still just a lot. Harvard's plan to build mixed-income housing is still just a plan. But at a time when Harvard has trouble housing its own students and faculty, the University does seem to have had a change of heart...
...subsequent career as university president and medical administrator. The death revelation, however, was certainly the oddest of the messages from on high that Roberts has reported since he launched his $250 million City of Faith Medical and Research Center in 1977. The first revelation was God's command to build the lavish complex, detailing such matters as a design with three towers of 20, 30 and 60 stories. In the next astonishing disclosure, Jesus appeared, standing "some 900 feet tall," and directed Roberts to persevere. As the need for money mounted, God ordered Roberts to require $240 from each supporter...