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...site. Like a shopping center, there are a number of parts to it. The library and the museum are in separate buildings. Eisenhower's boyhood home has been restored. The former president and his infant first born son are buried in the chapel-like Place of Meditation. In a focal arc, five large Memorial Pylons are dedicated to Eisenhower's parents, the six Eisenhower brothers, members of the armed services, democracy, and the home where the president spent his childhood. And still the Center grows; a large new visitors' reception facility is under construction...
...doctor of sick mines'") worked in China. At Independence, Truman's Masonic memorabilia are displayed with pictures of 14 other presidents who have been Masons. In the Eisenhower Museum the large collection of World War II weaponry and a sample of moon rock from the Apollo 12 mission are focal displays. In all of the museums, where trained specialists continually up-date and replace exhibits, there is a growing emphasis on an interpretative presentation of material rather than the mere display of objects. In the Truman museum an exciting exhibit--The Whistlestop Campaign of 1948--is an example of this...
...word about the Union, the building where Yard freshmen will be eating most meals. The large resounding dining rooms with dark wood panelling, row upon row of long oak tables and antleer chandeliers, (yea, no joke, a Teddy Roosevelt '84, donation), will quickly become the social focal point of the class of '78. Friendships will be struck, romances started, food fights will erupt, political conspiracies argued, gossip will be gleaned and scholarly one-upmanship will be victorious over what must be the world's worst coffee. Dramatic social conflicts of whom to acknowledge, glance at, ignore completely or sit with...
Cambridge residents appear to have legitimate concerns: The issues of controversy in the Massport allegations were evaluations of alternate sites and of environmental impact, the focal points of the Cambridge controversy over the library...
...whether the cardboard villains are foiled by capitalistic perseverance, a few wellplaced macho knife slashes, or the kind of depressing mysticism that responds to oppression by chanting "forgive them Lord they know not what they do (oo-wah-oo)." Although the theme is similar, and the music also the focal point, the 44 minutes of A Well Spent Life, which precede The Harder They Come for this final week at the Orson Welles, are completely transporting in a different way. Instead of journeying to some never-never land of commercial spirituality, we flee to a real place at a real...