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...prime ministership (1991-96) of Paul Keating, a brilliant and abrasive Laborite much feared for his insults ("pansies" and "unrepresentative swill" were among the milder epithets he launched at his foes in parliamentary debate) and greatly misunderstood for his tastes: given his passions for antique French clocks and Georgian furniture, Keating was the most cultivated Australian ever to serve as Prime Minister. The movement's chief unelected backer was a formidable young merchant banker named Malcolm Turnbull. (Full disclosure obliges me to say that Turnbull is married to my niece Lucy, herself the deputy lord mayor of Sydney.) Despite Keating...
...about the theater’s revival. Christine K.L. Bendorf ’10, an intern at the NCT and board member of the Harvard Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players, believes that the general student body is already curious about the recent reappearance of the NCT’s Georgian façade, “Something that the New College Theatre has is that it is right in the middle of the College,” she says. “We walk by every day and notice the posters in the window and see this big beautiful building...
...president, Faust will move from Greenleaf House, the Radcliffe dean's residence on Brattle Street, to Elmwood, the official residence of Harvard's president near Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Elmwood was vacant this past year after Derek C. Bok, the first Harvard president to inhabit the yellow Georgian mansion, chose instead to live in his Cambridge apartment...
Associate Dean of Harvard College Judith H. Kidd said that the next College dean will need to keep up on the faculty mandates on curriculum review and advising as well as find funds to renovate the neo-Georgian residential Houses...
...million to construct. At the time, the site was occupied by a psychological clinic, Mather Hall—a part of Leverett House—and a row of houses on DeWolfe St. In the three decades since the construction of Lowell House in 1930, the cost of handsome Georgian architecture had ballooned out of the range of possibility, so the residents of Quincy House would have to do without the entryway system, bell towers, and the multitude of fireplaces that characterized the older Houses. The other two other additions to the House system paid for by the program?...