Word: grave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resemblance to a gothic cathedral is not merely stylistic. For weeks, through a mortifying, mercurial Minnesota winter, two 80-man shifts have worked six days a week to finish what is, after all, a kind of fairy-tale church. The picturesque asymmetry, however, saves the palace from seeming grave. "Ours was not a modernist solution," said Karl Ermanis, the palace's chief architect, as if there were any doubts. The designers borrowed from King Ludwig II, Piranesi, Gaudi, Maxfield Parrish and Walt Disney. There are some fetching small touches: off to one side is an ersatz ice ruin...
...undoing. His infatuation with the unstable "Bosie," son of the Marquess of Queensberry, lands him in court and then in jail, his marriage broken, his reputation ruined. This is the stuff of tragedy, but Wilde will not have it so; the imp of the perverse follows him to the grave. Exiled to Paris, the extravagant drunk regrets that he is dying "the way I lived: beyond my means...
Nine of the graves signify people who died fighting apartheid in South Africa and slavery in America. The 10th grave stands for the people yet to die in the struggle, said N. Andrew Cohen, general manager of the Brown Daily Herald. The pro-divestment activists are keeping a round-the-clock watch over the graves to prevent vandalism similar to that which occurred at Dartmouth and Stanford...
...administration has not objected to the protest. "The grave sites seem to fit the standards of decorum," said Brown Dean of Students John Robinson...
Seriously, Berke, I expect more from you. What happened to the idealism of the Meadow Party convention. Cutter John would turn his his grave if he saw that strip, and Milo certainly wouldn't stand for it. Make fun of conservatives and progressives alike--that's great. But facile Cro-magnan stereotypes are not fun, they're offensive...