Word: halled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dedicated last week, the new City Hall draws 5,000 Bostonians every day to register to vote, pay taxes, buy licenses and be assigned to jury duty. Those who expected to find the building's interior gloomy and intimidating have been surprised by its airy openness. It is bathed in natural light, which pours down a central courtyard and through wide light shafts rising the full height of the nine-story building. It is extraordinarily accessible, with a subway station nearby and even has a concourse running through its ground floor. "It is the nexus...
...major areas of City Hall's interior were designed to lend dignity to the interaction between people and government," says McKinnell. "We felt that we had a bigger client to satisfy than just municipal department heads-the citizenry. Otherwise you have 1984, with a faceless bureaucracy running your affairs for you." Whether the citizenry has come to appreciate it or not, Boston City Hall, inside and out, can hardly be accused of being faceless...
...professors who signed yesterday's statement protesting the incident in Hunt Hall prefaced their declaration by saying "in the absence of a full and reliable account of what occurred there, we have no desire to pass judgment upon the incident." However, the facts of the incident make their defense of academic freedom meaningless...
Guerrilla troops of Afro members did not converge on Hunt Hall ready to attack Professor Bruening if he refused to change his course topic. About a hundred members did come to the class meeting and one read to statement clarifying Afro's objections to the course. Afro did not protest the original course syllabus only because of ideological differences. The syllabus indicated that the material taught in the course might directly endanger the lives of black people who, because they live in ghettos, could easily become involved in a "riot". The syllabus offered city planners a chance to study...
Bruening made it clear through his responsiveness that he did not feel his academic freedom was being threatened. It would make more sense for the indignant professors who signed yesterday's statement to ascertain "a full account" of what happened in Hunt Hall than to protest the incident in a dangerously ignorant way. Frances Lang...