Word: dumbarton
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...then there's the Byzantine Studies Center, which may or may not be leaving its spacious residence at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. for less-palacial quarters in Cambridge...
William R. Tyler, director of Dumbarton Oaks, agreed that nothing much has happened. "The library is running out of space," he said earlier this week, "but that's nothing...
...Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's elegant estate in the nation's capital, houses a library of Byzantine studies--but it is also the site of 16 acres of a world-renowned formal garden. So when Harvard proposed last year to build an underground library addition, Pusey-style, beneath the estate's most graceful lawn, the University ran into determined opposition...
...blue ribbon to a tree but if some asshole on a crane backs into it, some asshole on a crane has backed into it, and Jacobsen can't bring it back," Peter Shenk, a critic of a Harvard plan to build an underground library at the University-owned Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington, said last April. Shenk, a former Dumbarton Oaks gardener who mounted a successful campaign to block the planned construction, claimed the excavation would damage the estate's famous gardens. Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen claimed the construction would cause no permanent damage to the garden...
...Council of Economic Advisers, is on hand, fingertips together, eyes on the ceiling. So is Jim Lynn, head of the Office of Management and Budget. Ford's special agent at these sessions is his economic assistant, L. William Seidman, fresh from his morning 1 %mile jog in Dumbarton Oaks Park. Other Cabinet officers and bureaucrats move in and out according to subject...