Word: burr
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...second tragedy is that the Allston Burr Lecture Hall [which was torn down to make room for the Sackler] was an enormously important building. They demolished a fine piece of architecture," she said...
...went with a fiery personality," explains Winkler. Right now Lennox is drying out her pipes in preparation for a new album and a worldwide tour that will begin next summer. By then, any emotional chords she strikes are sure to be voiced in a proper Scots burr...
...Harvard, reaction to the new building is ranging from approval to outrage. John Coolidge, professor of architectural history, calls the building "brilliant," at once "striking, convenient and, above all, a sympathetic setting for works of art." Counters Law Professor Charles M. Haar: "The Sackler is even uglier than the Burr Lecture Hall that was there before. The site must be cursed by Apollo." The Sackler's alternately amusing and infuriating clash of details may blind critics to its innovations. The theatrical staircase, for example, clearly separates three stories of public exhibitions at one side of the building from five stories...
Also on the Corning board with Stone are Francis H. Burr '35, who sat on the Corporation for 28 years until 1982, and Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, the former dean of the Faculty...
Francis Hardon Burr '35, a senior partner with the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray, is chairman of the trustees of Massachusetts General and McLean Hospitals. In 1982, he retired his position as Senior Fellow of the governing Harvard Corporation, which he served on for 28 years. Burr now sits on the steering committee for Harvard's 350th Anniversary Celebration, and will receive a Harvard Medal this week for his service to the University. today. Between Boston and New York the preferred method of travel was by steamer--either for the entire distance through the Cape Cod Canal, which...