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Finnegans Wake represents the failure of that grandiloquent scheme. But it is a failure so brilliant that it can still illuminate the mind and gladden the spirit of all who do not regard words as mere tokens or tools, who see them as playthings capable of magic, creating awe by liturgy, or laughter by a conjurer's sleight of alphabet...
What the visitors will find should gladden their eyes and their metatarsal arches. Before designing the building, Architect Pereira examined the plan of every known museum, conducted an exhaustive questionnaire of museumgoers, resolved to cope with their pet peeves and hates. To beat museum fatigue, the floors are carpeted wall-to-wall; elevators spare staircase schlepping; Mies and Eames chairs beckon visitors everywhere. To defeat the claustrophobia resulting from endless galleries, there is plenty of glass and natural light. "We did not want it to be a forbidding place, full of cul-de-sacs, but a pleasant, outdoorsy place," Pereira...
...Atlanta's jointly owned dailies, the morning Constitution and the evening Journal, were to go out of business tomorrow, their disappearance would gladden the heart of many a Georgian. But none would rejoice more than James C. Davis, 69. After 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Davis was defeated for re-election in 1962 in a campaign that drew enthusiastic participation from both the Journal and Constitution. Lacking the power to order his tormentors into silence, ex-Congressman Davis last week did the next best thing. He founded an opposition daily, the Atlanta Times...
...Sawyer and Huck Finn, one way or the other. Just how far comes through loud and clear in a survey of the species conducted by Scholastic Magazines Inc. The resulting picture of U.S. boys and girls in grades seven through twelve (roughly age twelve through 17) is calculated to gladden a merchandiser's heart and strain the family's charge account at the drug store. Items...
...number of courses with 50 to 100 or more..." (p. 25), and altogether strive to give a more correct view of the College. This could have the felicitious result of halving or quartering the number of applications, and perhaps eventually even reducing the number of students. Such progress should gladden the hearts of all. David B. Garber...