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...expectations to live up to. He seems to have done a good job of impressing his staff, who for the most part seem, like most of us, to be more Rosovsky-type than Dunlop-type people. The U-Hall staff this year has been fairly low-key and relaxed, like Rosovsky; people who keep their jobs through the administrations of several bosses have to be somewhat chameleon like to survive...
...After all, some of the others were much better known. All those we considered are fine architects. But Pei! He loves things to be beautiful.... We felt that Pei's best work, as John Kennedy's was in 1960, is yet to come." Ieoh Ming Pei was a modest, low-key 48-year-old architect when Jacqueline Kennedy gave that short speech in December of 1964. A Chinese-born American architect, schooled at MIT and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Pei had been the surprise winner in the world-wide architectural talent search for the Kennedy Library project architect...
...Low-Key Happiness...
...point-getters, VPW and Embree, evinced a low-key happiness concerning their winning efforts. Embree erased any doubt that his previous high of 7 ft. 1/4 in. was a fluke by jumping the same height again Saturday. At first he commented only that his victory "was hep." But Harvard's finest high jumper even later mentioned that he was "looking forward to the upcoming IC4A's and Nationals...
...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life passed into summer hibernation quietly this week after a low-key discussion of affirmative action, prize money disparities and the freshman mailing list...