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...When he began at Harvard and at the Fogg, he found things in fine and fresh early bloom," Rudenstine aid. "By the time he left, he had brought them to full flower. We shall miss him: for himself, and also for the way that he allows us--through him--to reach backward in time, touching the very origins of our history in the serious study and collection of art, and in a serious effort to understand and respond imaginatively to art at Harvard...
Gardens have always served as a handy mirror of American tastes and obsessions. For the Puritans a voluptuous flower bed was a sentimental waste or, worse, an attempt to improve on nature's creation. After Pearl Harbor, when America already grew enough food to feed half the world, 20 million people planted Victory gardens in 1943 in, among other places, a Portland, Oregon, zoo and a Chicago racetrack. Such mass gardening was supposed to help prevent juvenile delinquency, improve the national health and, in the process, "help beet the enemy." Ever since, Americans have found plenty of high moral fiber...
...They had questions like, `Would you ratherread the Bible or watch TV? Would you rather holda flower or hold a gun?'" Bagby says. "I guessit's to see what kind of moral character youhave...
Preceded by a police motorcade and a funeral car carrying a bed of flower arrangements, the hearse slowly wound its way down Main St. in Medford. It was followed by more than a dozen cars containing family members and mourners, and the two Harvard shuttle buses. Inside the buses, several students quietly cried...
Otto found writing ideas everywhere. His fondness for roses blossomed into a book about the joys of that flower. His love for the piano led to a biography of pianist Glenn Gould. For years, Otto and former senior editor Ruth Brine, a skilled violinist, met regularly during the lunch hour to play duets. "We had three-sonata lunches," Brine recalls. She once dreamed that the sessions had exhausted all the music in the world, but Otto reassured her that that could never be the case. For Otto Alva Friedrich, there was always another sonata to play, another rose to cultivate...