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...years the Institute for Advanced Study hummed quietly with the intellectual energies of men like Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Now the halls of its large Georgian central building, set on an isolated wooded hilltop near Princeton University, are filled with outraged mutterings about "breach of confidence," "contemptible conduct" and "second-rate scholarship." This uncharacteristic rancor surrounds an epic struggle between a majority of the institute's faculty and its director, Economist Carl Kaysen...
Robert Bell Reddick's Ten Walking Tours of Cambridge dismisses the building at 14 Plympton Street in about half a sentence, giving short shrift to its "neo-Georgian" design, and saying that Lampy's castle "puts to shame the Crimson Building." Harvard's semi-official book on it own architecture, Education, Bricks, and Mortar, doesn't mention the building at all, Newspaper buildings by and large are rough, functional structures, which serve a practical daily purpose and expedite the production of their publications. Few of them win architecture awards, and none of them can approach in grandeur the Lampoon...
...Station WUAB-TV, Lorain, Ohio, applied to the FCC to run an hour program paid for by real estate men and featuring houses and land for sale. Part of a sample spiel: "Look at what the Lions from Leo [a local real estate company] have this week! This lovely Georgian bi-level on a sprawling treed lot! The price for all this? Much less than you think! Call the Lions from...
Even the ragged corps work did not bother the Tbilisians, who were out to welcome their second most famous native son (after Stalin). Though born in Leningrad (in 1904), Balanchine comes from Georgian stock. Among those on hand to greet him was his brother Andrei Balanchivadze, 66, a prominent if somewhat outdated composer, a three-year-old grandnephew, also named Andrei, and scores of other Georgians claiming kinship and free tickets...
...other Harvard buildings. Holyoke Center and the Peabody Terrace married student dormitories. "You can stick to the old styles or make imitation or take them, but it would be very difficult," he said. "But I can't imagine how we could build the Science Center in Georgian style...