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...libraries on campus, it is Lamont which is most conducive to studying. Lamont is a no-nonsense, no frills library. There are but a handful of cushy chairs; only the most minimal carpeting is used. Lamont is built from concrete and starkly adorned with linoleum floors and metal bookcases. It's a utilitarian box which has the slogan "Glue your butt to the chair" etched into its walls. Lamont provides students with the serious study space which undergraduates welcome as their necessary refuge...
...followers, and none who became painters of the first rank. Part of the paradox of Mondrian was that although he believed passionately in the "universal" character of his art, it could not be successfully imitated. But it was vulgarized on a million grid-design dresses, bedspreads and rolls of linoleum, and parodied in a thousand cartoons. This image of Mondrian as a high-level designer reflected back on his work, and one of the objectives of this show (there has not been a Mondrian retrospective in New York since 1971) is to rescue an artist who was incapable of triviality...
Students at other colleges, most of whom livein minuscule two-person boxes with cinder blockwalls and linoleum floors tend to get jealous whenthey see pictures of elegant Harvard quarters. Andwith good reason. Harvard's dorms have somedrawbacks, of course; students need to develop thestamina to climb stairs and a high tolerance forold architecture. But a housing system thatinvolves working fireplaces, wooden floors,spacious rooms and beautiful landscaping isn'tsuch a bad start to a Harvard career.Crimson File PhotoCanaday, the newest first-year dorm,consists of seven rectangular buildings in thenortheast corner of the Yard...
...year to hear the masters playwill not be found in the smaller clubs. InBoston's increasingly upscale environment, thediminishing number of joints like The Willow standout because of their lack of pretense. Indeed, TheWillow's wall-to-wall, industrial strength,redish-brown carpeting (which is actually on thewell), small linoleum tables and pastiche of 70'sjazz-album covers taped up near the ceiling forgea distinct sense of place hard to find in theRegattabar, with its predictable hardwood floorsand delicate candelabras...
...perspective, consider the case of the Prudential Center in Boston's Back Bay. The Prudential Tower contains literally tones of sprayed-on fire proofing containing 60 percent amosite asbestos. Amosite asbestos is claimed by some to have a greater disease-causing potential than chrysotile, the type presumably in the linoleum at 29 Garden Street...