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Harvard has an obligation to LeCorbusier, to architecture, and to itself to erect the designer's building as he wanted...
...hands, his head, his posture. "I can't explain it very well," Chapin once said, "but it is the symbolic human gesture that interests me -not the gesture of hands and feet but the carriage of the human body and the human head." Here, the carriage is erect, proud, quietly intense, with wisdom coiled inside like a spring...
...empty expanses of Islamabad, the new capital that Pakistan plans to erect in the cool foothills of the Himalayas, the first buildings scheduled to go up are a cluster of airy structures designed by famed US. Architect Edward Stone. Set in a cloistered water garden, the biggest of Stone's buildings will house Pakistan's first nuclear reactor-one of the latest sales made by New York's booming American Machine & Foundry...
...neighboring Kenya and grew up with Kikuyu children, had been scouring the gorge since 1931. Over the years he has unearthed the bones of an ancient pig as big as a rhino, a six-foot-tall sheep, a twelve-foot-tall bird and the flat-topped skull of the erect "Nutcracker man." so named because of his huge molars that suggested that he lived on nuts and tough vegetation. Leakey put the Nutcracker man's age at 600,000 years. He holds that the bones of his latest find-the child and adult-are older still because they were...
...fact that Kate was singing hymns in the choir of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Laurel, back in 1927, when she felt the first pangs signaling the impending birth of Mary Leontyne Violet Price-a first child after 13 years of barrenness. Her father James, an erect, dignified, sparrow-thin man. now 79, worked in the local sawmills (Laurel used to call itself the Yellow Pine Capital of the World before the woods gave out). Kate Price, an iron-willed woman with some of Leontyne's own incendiary temper, took to midwifery to bolster the family income...