Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good. Once before we departed to face the monotony, the endless present, the mal-adjusted life, but then we were held by an elastic band, and knew that one day we would be snapped back to you. Now we move out from under your protection naturally, as children who grow up and leave their father's house. But as we leave, we look back and, in your face, see reflected men, experiences, lessons. We see five figures going over an obstacle course together, and at the end of it they don red flannels and carry cow bells...
...Giovanni, each Madonna and Child, Crucifixion, Pieta, martyred saint, and lay portrait was an essay on nature as well as on man. He organized his pictures with the care of a conscientious gardener, planting every detail where it would have room to grow and impress itself on the eye. Light was all-important in his best works; he fixed its color and quality precisely enough to show the weather and the time of day. But the light said even more: he made it a link between people and landscapes. In paintings like Saint Francis (see cut), the painted light seems...
...abashed that he didn't learn the hotel business from the scullery up, like many of his competitors. The important thing for success, says he, is to know finance, although he admits that "any flophouse can make money these days." But he does not think he will grow much bigger; he has found enough hotels to keep his money busy. Said he: "A lot of people might say that I'm a speculator . . . but . . . the last thing in the world I want to do is buy a low-interest bond...
...Enter to grow in wisdom, but after eleven go around by the main gate." So might be inscribed the granite arch above Wigglesworth Gate. Today this gate stands as a continual source of frustration to the returned men of Harvard who are doomed to live in the Yard...
...future expansion of Harvard is no baseless hypothesis. The mushrooming graduate schools, broad national increase in enrollments, G.I. Bill, government subsidies for advanced research, all make up a demand that Harvard grow with the times. But this growth does not mean that what is now left of the Yard must b subject to the whims of succeeding generations of growth-intoxicated planners. It is about time the University took to protecting its meagre reserves of physical attractiveness instead of sacrificing them to short-view expediency...