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Nothing about the church is more functional, or more imaginative, than its 38-ft.-square window, which Emil Frei and Robert Harmon designed. Since the window faces the congregation, they made it only partly transparent-to cut down glare. By day, the opaque areas appear in silhouette; with interior lighting at night, they create a mural effect. The church itself is somewhat stiff in design, and the window's weaving composition is contrastingly amorphous...
When the bright glare of publicity focused on the inequities of applying Lamont's 9 p.m. check-out time to commuters, library officials uttered a quiet tut-tut, but that was all. As early as October, the Student Council presented them with a solution: allow commuters to take out one of every five conies of reserved books at five o'clock, these books being marked specifically for non-residents. But after two months, both the books and the ratio plan are still shelved...
...corridor outside, engulfing visitors like Bob Taft and House Leader Joe Martin (who came up to talk legislative programs) and the Cabinet nominees. When Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden stepped out of the elevator to keep a lunch date with Ike, he was greeted by a glare of flash bulbs and a roar from a photographer (to a slow-footed reporter): "Get the hell out of the road...
...weedy clearing in the same bush out of which he later hacked Mister Johnson, it was the story of an African girl bursting with savage life who tried her pagan best to be a Christian; the inevitable friction burnt her alive. In spite of its authentic glare and beat, the book sold badly and Gary "got no bean of royalty." The next year, a second book about Africa, An American Visitor, fared even worse. His first break came in 1936 when The African Witch was made a Book Society choice and earned him about ?700. In 1938 came Castle Corner...
Happily, two Cambridge Civic Association city councillors, Crane and Deguglielmo, had long since adjusted their eyesight to the halo's glare. As politicians, they knew far better than the despairing Herald that efficiency and honesty are no more than first steps to good government. Happily, too, the man they helped elect has equally keen eyes...