Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Square is living modern. With nearby Quincy a geometrical tombstone to Georgian elegance, Cronin's due to explode into a seven-story hygenic skyscraper, and the Harvard Trust new-faced with fresh brick and steel, the Square sloughs off its gingerbread and tries to make "form fit function...
...regression in this general trend is the shelf that even now creeps from the Coop, over Albiani's towards Church Street. The Square's better (liberal progressive twentieth century) half can still triumph over its reactionary rival, though, if it makes the Shelf functional and therefore gloriously modern. Let's make it a nesting place for local pigeons. Or let's run up a block and tackle and turn it into a parking place for motorscooters. The Shelf might make a fine vantage point for cheerleaders, of either sex, to stir the hearts of a Square pep rally...
However the shelf may be employed, its full utilitarian potential certainly should be exploited. Embarrasingly enough, the Square now has a form to which some function must be fitted. There's no reason why Harvard Square, like any other square, should not toe the modern American line. No matter how ugly it is--if it works...
...Christian authority to teach the gospel, Newbigin declared, derives from the fact that the "total event of Christ" was indeed an event, on whose reality all men were agreed, and was not merely a teaching or a philosophy. Modern Christians may teach greater men than themselves for the same reason that the rabble of the time could enter heaven before their greater contemporaries--because the established religious men of the day were concerned with their own self-righteousness. In the "total event of Christ" Newbigin stated, men were--and are--confronted with a demand over and above the demands...
...theory of Marx, despite "mistakes," is the one solution to modern needs for a "true brotherhood of man," Paul M. Sweezy '31, a former assistant professor of Economics, said in a speech last night before the Harvard Socialist Club...