Word: christos
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Harvard's motto once was "Veritas, Christo en Ecclesiae" (truth for Christ and the Church), and it appears as such in Sanders Theatre, Johnston Gate and the Freshman Union...
...Christo, avant-garde artist given to wrapping monuments in nylon: "Unable to answer your question" (but sends a resume...
...pondered aloud, would the administration keep secret such a media "event," but then a kindly passer-by noted that Christo's fee for such an artistic "treatment" was undoubtedly equivalent to four years' tuition paid by the class of '96! No wonder the "patron of the arts" who heads Harvard kept the installation under wraps...
...opposed to university money being spent upon art--I think an enormous bronze clipper ship or the statue or hand-lasted shoe to commemorate New England's economic contributions to America would go a long ways toward livening up the Yard--but I question whether Christo's desire to "re-envision" everyday structure by enfolding them in sensuously undulating fabric is truly appropriate to an institution devoted precisely to propping up our nation's "everyday structures...
Maybe it's time Christo and Rudenstine call it a wrap." Jeff Moran...