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...succeeding years the organizers of the house developed additional programs such as a hot line (which helped to counsel callers on many of the underground issues of the day: drugs pregnancy, VD, the draft), a drug education program, a legal aid group, and programs to support alternative life-styles. By 1974 there were 70 full-time staff members and 200 volunteers involved in seven different programs...
...Adams announced that the Department of Transportation would encourage "good design, art and architecture in transportation facilities and services." Several months later, as part of this policy, the Urban Mass Transit Authority gave the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--the folks who've been trying to extend the Red Line through Harvard Square--$125,000 to develop one of four national pilot projects...
Artists on the Line at Carpenter Center is the preliminary, eclectic and somewhat confusing result of that grant. In an age of decaying airports and decrepit bus terminals, the painless improvement of passengers' "spatial experience" is a sound idea. Unfortunately, the MBTA seems to have about as much luck commissioning art work for its stations as it does securing permission to build those stations...
...Line extension project ever gets out as far as Porter Square, the intersection of Massachusetts and Somerville Avenues will never be the same. After reviewing the work of some 300 artists, Cambridge Seven architects heading the project commissioned seven to draw up plans for decorating the proposed station. Although the artists say they discussed their ideas with each other in order to achieve an integrated, co-operative effect, each was given his own portion of the station with which to experiment; and it shows. Cambridge Arts Council spokeswoman Jennifer Dowling promises that every artist will ultimately be represented when...
EXHIBITING WORKS OF ART in progress is a risky idea, made worse when carelessly planned. Artists on the Line features some fascinating individual works spoiled by the failure of those in charge to integrate the artists' ideas. When Brock Adams announced his new policy, he noted that "an investment in the design of transportation can produce humane and pleasant places and improve the quality of out environment." If it's done right, maybe. But if the federal government learns anything from the fledgling Porter Square pilot project, it will hesitate before it lets its checkbook loose in Cambridge again...