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When the three Olympic villages opened for the athletes two weeks before the Games, Ueberroth waited for the predicted nightmares to happen. By now the tension had reached its peak. "I always had the feeling," he recalls, "that at any second something would erupt." Foremost in his mind was the realization that at Munich in 1972 the Israeli athletes had not been seized until the tenth day. "I carried a calendar around in the center of my skull," he says. Crises, small and large, occurred by the hour. The man Ueberroth had picked to climb the towering steps...
This is good news. It suggests that they no longer see their foremost task as aiding and abetting the wearisome sameness of mechanization. Whether they design office buildings or chairs, suburban homes or personal computers, their aim seems to be to play down the technical aspects and emphasize "the human factor." The most notable design achievements of 1984 imply, in fact, that good design has little to do with style. Instead, it has to do with improving our living spaces, making them interesting yet harmonious, cheerful yet dignified, efficient yet relaxing...
...Professor and renowned Johnson scholar Walter J. Bate with the first copy of the 12th volume of the Harvard English Studies series entitled "Johnson and His Age." The book should be released from the press in a few weeks. Bate is regarded by many to be the world's foremost authority on Johnson...
DIED. Bernard J.F. Lonergan, 79, Jesuit philosopher and theologian whose championship of rigorous intellectual inquiry as a means of revivifying faith placed him among the foremost Christian thinkers of the 20th century; in Pickering, Ont. A demanding and temperamental teacher, the priest was the author of two densely reasoned, seminal texts: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology (1972). Lonergan sought to reshape theological inquiry in light of modern scientific and philosophical advances...
...example, the college boasts the foremost women's studies resource in the country--the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, as well as the Bunting Institute, one of the nation's four largest post-doctoral programs...