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...Class Day speaker, however, Woody leaves a little to be desired. Usually, the Class Day address carries with it some political or social import. Somehow, Woody does not fit the mold of past speakers. The last five years provide a good contrast...
What is disturbing about such a school--besides the fact that the Harvard campus is now considered so docile that the CRNC feels comfortable indoctrinating its corps of organizers here--is that it fits the Republican bureaucratic mold so precisely...
Will Harvard win the Eastern League swimming title for the first time since 1962? Will the Crimson compile its first undefeated season in 11 years? Can head coach Don Gambril mold his team into an Eastern swimming power in just two years...
What is Tito really up to? It is scarcely remembered now that at the time of his split with Stalin, Tito (now 80) was already an oldfashioned, authoritarian Communist in the Moscow mold. He began to pull Yugoslavia away from the Soviet model partly for economic reasons. While Moscow was wreaking its vengeance on Belgrade with a trade-crippling boycott, Tito discovered that the liberal reforms persuasively advocated by his brilliant lieutenant Milovan Djilas were not only popular inside Yugoslavia but also attracted badly needed sympathy-and aid-from the West...
Behavior is not a liquid that sets like Jell-O into the mold of a building. Yet all building implies some ordering of life. Fine spaces do not "happen"; they are designed, either by consensus over a span of years (like the town plan of San Gimignano in Tuscany) or else by the authoritative work of one man. There is no consensus of the first kind in America: witness the slurping tide of chaotic architectural mutants that passes for an urban experience in any U.S. city. So we are left with the individual architect as form giver: the responsibilities remain...