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...Reagan’s election, in the middle of our senior year, would be enshrined in mainstream political myth as a new morning, but to many of us it felt instead like night descending—a final curtain on the progressive era that, for kids our age, had been the only politics we’d ever known. We graduated into the worst recession since the Hoover era and a nation that had inexplicably elected a nuke-happy movie star from California. To this day, I associate that gloomy moment with the bleakly stirring sounds of the Clash?...
...they were more satisfied with the care they receive than their Canadian counterparts. The report suggested this could be due to the shorter waiting times and better appearances of American hospitals. Himmelstein, however, said he believes that American satisfaction stems from what he calls the “Iron Curtain.” “Americans are not allowed to see what’s going on in the rest of the world” for fear that they would demand another system, he said. Himmelstein said that administrative costs accounted for one cent of every dollar spent...
...most of the building was later razed, leaving just four inner-city tracks in operation. In a further twist, the cold war division of the city left the former hub marooned in the desolate wasteland abutting the Wall, the last stop in West Berlin before the Iron Curtain. The new building celebrates its renewed role as the focal point of the reunified metropolis. "We drew on the fact that Lehrter Stadtbahnhof was the center of Berlin, the embodiment of a lively city quarter," says architect Jürgen Hillmer of German firm Von Gerkan, Marg and Partner. And lively...
...collapse the two into a single narrative, as Carroll’s own stage version and the Disney movie do. Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus’ script devotes a single act to each.The first few scenes of the play are performed in front of a closed curtain by paper figures in a small toy theater as the endearingly cheeky Cheshire Cat (Rowan W. Dorin ’07) narrates. The live performance begins when the paper Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole in the toy stage, and the actual Alice (Sara L. Bartel ’06) stumbles...
When it first got under way, early in the 20th century, Modernism was an idealistic undertaking. Clean lines and glass-curtain walls were supposed to bring on a more just, more rational world. After World War II, the style drifted from its utopian foundations and was adopted wholesale for corporate headquarters everywhere. But Foster has kept his connection to Modernism's idealistic strain. His designs are environmentally conscious. His new library at Berlin's Free University is the last word in energy efficiency. And the diagrids of the Hearst Tower use 20% less steel than a conventional frame does...