Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebrate its 350th anniversary, the University--with much pomp and grandeur--raised $350 million. Eleven years later, at the midway point of its $2.1 billion capital campaign, Harvard has raised more that $350 million dollars in a single year...
Flanagan said Hirsch Contractors, also in charge of the recent renovations to the Coops at Kendall Square and at Longwood Medical Center, plans to establish much of the grandeur and structural detail characteristic of a restored historic building...
Like many of my classmates, I have been tempted to linger. Harvard is an idyllic world, blessed with stately architecture, brilliant mind, and quiet optimism. But then I think of California, and the familiar streets near my house, and the sun blinking off the ocean, and the grandeur of the Central Valley's grain fields, and everything else I love about that land out west. And I realize that what I thought was a coming home to Harvard was in fact an exploration: the kind T.S. Eliot '09 describes in his "Four Quartets" when he writes: "We shall not cease...
Upon first arriving here, Harvard was imbued with an indelible aura, a mythical glamour the color of Crimson tradition. Although the glamour was alluring, it was also distancing. Places with so much history and so much grandeur rarely lend themselves to intense personal involvement or relationship. Over the years, the glow fades. Part of me mourns this loss, the end of enchantment. However, perhaps it is for the best that Harvard loses its rosy glow as we live here. When the College loomed so large, we felt too small to impact its future; as its size diminished, our power...
...nothing of such magnitude would be tried in America; the triumph of the glass-box International Style meant the death of ornament and a recoil from "fine" material. Nor, in the '70s and '80s, was the cheap pasteboard revivalism of Postmodernist historical quotation going to revive a sense of grandeur. Moreover, with the exception of various memorials, and of such projects as Richard Meier's six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles (to be completed later this year), the level of grand commissions for public benefit flattened...