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...court please, I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.' That's all I have...
...equipment replaces the old, then the overcrowding [at the MAC] will be worse," said Dara B. Olmstead '00. "If new machines are added, then the MAC might be able to accommodate more people...
...hands of the men who knew that the working man and woman craved to have their passions excited, not their minds informed. P.T. Barnum was filling the halls and making money off it. While Andrew Carnegie was endowing public libraries that most of the public never used and Olmstead was building public parks the public never...
...MALE NOVELISTS WITH A YEN to be Danielle Steel: a motorcycle will haul almost any load of sentimental mush. Robert Olmstead knows this. In his novel AMERICA BY LAND (Random House; $20), Ray Redfield, 23 and drifting, heads out on his Harley to visit his cousin Juliet in New Mexico. He doesn't know she has just sold her newborn daughter to a pair of yuppies. She doesn't know he is bleeding internally from an industrial accident. On the big bike, wounded together, they blast through Colorado and Nevada at 80 m.p.h., charming waitresses and sassing state cops, bumming...
...19th century, Boston-based landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead wanted to build a necklace of parks that would stretch from Boston Common out to the suburbs. Remnants of the attempt remain in Brookline but the plan was never completed. Today, instead of a network of green pathways bringing the country into the city, there is a web of urban corridors in which the city seeps out into the country. Rt. 135 is a good example of this strip development. A block or two away you find secluded one-acre plots, but along this two-lane highway you can measure your...