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...heroes but to Sören Kierkegaard, David Livingstone, Albert Schweitzer and Jane Addams. Even a carved snake in the choir with a caricatured head of Hitler. A space-age window in which a sliver of a moon rock is encased. On the roof, growling gargoyles, and on the lawn, an oversized gilded bronze statue of Washington astride a horse...
Ford sipped his iced tea. The afternoon light began to fade across the south lawn. He had had his ups and downs over the last week. He was a bit more tired than usual, just a shade more subdued. But he was still a believer. "I'm an optimist," he said. "It's a great thrill being President... Betty and I are well adjusted [to White House life]; the children have gotten along well; I think it has brought our family closer together. Our children have matured very well in the White House. It's been helpful...
...yourself up to the Berkshires this summer. The most important thing going on there, as always, is the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood under the supervision of Seiji Ozawa, and the program for this summer looks particularly good. For $3.50, you can guarantee yourself a spot on the lawn for a picnic and listen to, on July 18 for example, Ozawa conduct an all-Haydn program. Access is easy--exit 1 on the Mass Pike, and buses from Boston...
...open-mindedness. This is partly the legacy of the '60s; according to one senior Faculty member, Bok is "the classic example of a man chosen to make up for his predecessors. If Bok retired today, the professor adds, Bok "would be remembered as the president who brought back the lawn to the Yard." While some are reluctant to juxtapose Pusey and Bok and instead insist on emphasizing their similarities, others quite bluntly concede their differences. Ackerman says the Pusey administration was like the Nixon White House: "You couldn't break in, there was no way of giving a contrary opinion...
...Fifty straight years," Harry kept saying as he roamed the lawn outside Kresge last Sunday afternoon. All around him, members of the Class of 1951 and their wives cradled drinks in plastic cups and nibbled miniature hot dogs that they speared with plastic toothpicks...