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...loss to scholarship, but to the University community the death of Arthur Darby Nock is a family loss. One of the last members of a vigorous and humane tradition, he never used high learning to shut out the rest of the world. His many friends in all of Harvard mourn his passing, and must resign themselves to life in a place made suddenly smaller by his absence...
...indeed, for being a Cabot and a Lowell in Boston was not a feeling, but a state of being. Yet Godfrey Lowell Cabot was remarkable even for a member of Boston's two most famed families. He was not content to peer down from Beacon Hill and mourn, like the late George Apley, the passing of Victorian glory. He moved into the outside world and modern times with astonishing vigor and effectiveness, and he left behind him his own highly personal mark...
...more and more architecturally conscious Manhattanites think that some sort of order should be imposed on heedless builders, who exercise their free-enterprising right to build with little thought for neighboring buildings and still less for sentimental architecture buffs who mourn the passing of old landmarks. Aroused traditionalists are now battling to save the grand old bulk of Pennsylvania Station, which is scheduled for demolition to make way for two office buildings and a mammoth sports arena. Carnegie Hall was saved, but the old Ritz-Carlton and Brevoort Hotels have fallen to progress and the wrecker's ball...
...Southern civility. The praise of a few perceptive U.S. critics had stirred interest in Europe, and in 1950 Faulkner received the Nobel Prize. By last week, when William Faulkner died of a heart attack at 64, presidents and professors alike lifted their voices to acclaim his life and mourn his death...
...lines, and tunnels and bridges to New Jersey. Currently losing $2,500,000 a year on the maintenance of Penn Station, the Pennsy expects its share of the revenues from the new Garden to cut its operating loss on the station to $1,000,000 annually. Those who mourn Manhattan's disappearing architectural landmarks will not sigh long over the dilapidated Garden on Eighth Avenue, but will regret the leveling of the greyed, Grecian granite Penn Station, whose vaulted open arcade was modeled on the ancient Roman Baths of Caracalla...