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...Staff writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu...
...most controversial decisions Taniguchi made was to retain the famous amalgam of fa?ades along the museum's West 53rd Street side. The product of five separate building campaigns, the streetscape features successive fa?ades by Edward Durrell Stone and Philip Goodwin, Philip Johnson, and Cesar Pelli. Taniguchi argued to keep them intact?as a kind of history of modern architecture. This fueled early mumblings that the renovation was an opportunity lost, a glorified embalming rather than a genuine rebuilding. Dismissing such complaints, Taniguchi says: "Unlike many museums, MOMA faces a street, not an avenue, so even if I did something interesting...
...irony in Tribe’s case is that two years ago, he fervently came to the defense of another well-known Harvard academic—historian and University Overseer Doris Kearns Goodwin. She herself was accused of lifting substantial passages in her 1987 book, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. In a letter Tribe wrote responding to The Crimson Staff’s call for Goodwin’s resignation from Harvard’s 30-member Board of Overseers, he sought to deemphasize Goodwin’s oversights in relation to her greater body of work. He chided Goodwin?...
...this context that Tribe’s latest admission strikes us as especially worrisome. Unlike Goodwin, Tribe has few excuses on which to fall back. As Tribe pointed out, Goodwin may have been guilty of inadvertently lifting language from another text, but she had at least cited her source among some 3,500 footnotes. Tribe’s 1985 book, on the other hand, contains no footnotes or endnotes on account of a desire to make the book more “accessible” to the general public. To be sure, the book does reference Abraham?...