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Harvard Hall, the building's most magnificent room, lies just to the rear of the Grill Room. During the day, huge bay windows provide dramatic illumination to the hall, which is used for speeches, receptions and large dinners. Harvard Hall is the unmistakable work of late-19th century architect Stanford...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The New York Harvard Club: | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

More: Society had slumped into a posture of cynical disbelief; no, the search for spiritual illumination was epidemic and had grown so fervent (so Columnist Harriet Van Home claimed last week) that it was endangering the state-church separation. The moral permissiveness achieved in the '60s was ripening into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The '70s: A Time of Pause | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

After Israel proclaimed its independence, Ben-Gurion named her as the new nation's first ambassador to Moscow. He later made her Minister of Labor, then Foreign Minister, a post in which she stoutly supported his policy of tough retaliation for every act of Arab sabotage or raid. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: A Tough, Maternal Legend | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Beckett's total-loss view of life is as dense and dark as a black hole. Miraculously, his writing provides illumination. He told one of the directors of Godot that "nothing is more grotesque than the tragic," and all of his works prove it. Beckett's clowns and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Illuminations of the Grotesque | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

From the 7th through 12th centuries, medieval Spain, isolated on the Iberian peninsula, developed an artistic tradition distinct from the rest of Europe's. Visigoth and Muslim influences brought a pagan exoticism to Spain's Christian art, particularly in illuminated manuscripts. Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination by John Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Readings of the Season | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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