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Cornell University's West Sibley Hall had a jewel of a janitor-for a couple of hours, anyway, as Historian Clinton Rossiter, 49, scrabbled around with bucket and scrub brush. Rossiter doesn't think the hired help who are supposed to clean up the 100-year-old home of the government and history departments have been paying attention to his office. "The janitors have no time to clean up here," Rossiter announced, as he staged a protest "scrub-in" with six of his students and three other professors. "They're too busy watering the potted palms over...
There are other more personal reasons why Sullivan would like to include Harvard's building service employees in his union. By virtue of its reputation, size, and wealth, Harvard would be the jewel in a system that already stretches from Berkeley to Dartmouth. And Sullivan claims to be a little bit embarrassed by his failure to place Harvard in the BSEUI bag. Discussing his lengthy record of successful organizing campaigns, he points out that "I'm from Inman Square and still haven't organized Harvard...
...lies in the stark mortality of Matthew, Peter, Paul and John, portrayed like any common men before the terror of God. The 13th century Gothic period was more orderly than awestruck. A stained-glass lancet window shows Christ's passion in five panels set in an interlace of jewel-like embroidery. Christ ascends toward heaven by vignettes-from betrayal, to entombment. Later, as the terror of the apocalypse grew wearying, the Virgin Mary became more prominent. The Christ Child's figure became relatively smaller and the Virgin's larger and more feminine. With their rediscovery of Greek...
...From one end of the nation to the other, the bestselling look in women's evening fashions this year is sparkle plenty, and then some. It can be seen in silver and gold lame shoes, hats, bags, evening pajamas, raincoats and even bikinis; it comes in sequined and jewel-encrusted and beaded dresses, and in silver mesh and see-through dresses with dazzling bras to go under them...
Even the name Vienna sets up resonances that belong to the past: candlelight, slow waltz music, fiacres, lindentree parks, the Danube and the Prater -a capital jewel in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, doomed to obliteration by transitional winds. The old Vienna has its surviving spirits, none sturdier than Heimito von Doderer, at 70 Austria's foremost novelist. A courtly and playful Viennese, Von Doderer remembers with fondness the city as it was half a century ago. The Waterfalls of Slunj is his love song to that twilight time, the first of an intended four-volume epic...