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Harvard is tentatively considering a plan which could make Church St. a "new gateway" to the School of Education and Radcliffe Yard...
...Francisco has long been the U.S.'s gateway to the Orient. There, clipper ships embarked, coolies came to build the transcontinental railroad, and the largest Chinese colony in the New World was established. To embellish it, Avery Brundage, 78, president of both the U.S. and more recently the international Olympic committee and millionaire builder as well, last week opened a new wing containing his collection of Oriental art, which doubles the size of the M. H. de Young Museum...
...wonder to what extent the dismal public image of marihuana is a consequence of its route of entry. The medieval Assassins made Cannabis known as a plant that inspired fierce courage. Baudelaire gave it credit for being a gateway to worlds of visionary delight. But the wretched people who brought it to us--people who had high rates of crime and insanity to begin with--used it only to counteract the misery of their lives. Perhaps marihuana has been judged guilty by association...
Looking like a gigantic porte-cochere at first glance, the four-story Arts Center serves visually as a gateway to the campus. Functionally, its elevated wing contains artists' studios; clerestories jut up above the roof line to catch the light; galleries and staircases are cantilevered out into space; practice rooms on the ground floor declare themselves by their irregular shapes, which baffle the sound. "I'm not looking for beauty," says Rudolph, "but I'm looking for what's meaningful...
...peacefully for the U.S. what World War II bombs did for Europe: to clear decaying downtown areas for new inner cities. The physical monuments to such sledgehammer surgery are many, and many are distinguished; Manhattan's Lincoln Center, Philadelphia's Independence Mall, Pittsburgh's Gateway Center, Detroit's Lafayette Square, St. Louis' Plaza Redevelopment, Hartford's Constitution Plaza. Urban renewal has worked fiscal wonders too: tax returns on city land now completely renewed have risen...