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...that the project is carried out properly and not botched along the way." In his multiple role, he has seen to it that the buildings are a far cry from the run-of-the-drafting-board, speculate buildings. Instead, they are full of novel concepts, from aerial pedestrian walkways to 23-story interior courts, none of which Portman thinks would have been realized if he had not maintained complete control...
...difficult to visualize even now in its final form, because the red-brick plaza which is the cement which holds the whole project together isn't finished yet. With pedestrian underpasses going through, a plaza with trees, walks, benches, etc., one will be able to see clearly the cencept which I.M. Pei developed for the Government Center. It will provide some continuity between Beacon Hill--the State House and the red-brick sidewalks -- down through Scollay Square, to Dock Square, and ultimately to the waterfront which is also to be renewed...
This leads us next to the next renewal area. There will be some change in the off-ramps affording the pedestrian some means of direct access to the Waterfront. With a relocated Atlantic Avenue, a combination of highrise apartment houses, town houses, and some converted warehouses (into apartments), hundreds of millions of dollars is being invested in new construction for Boston in the Waterfront Project...
...Wolfe (he died in 1938), and Turnbull has talked with scores of them. As a biographer (Scott Fitzgerald) who seems to be making a specialty of writing about Scribner's authors in books for Scribner, he has had access to all the "sources." His biography is just, but pedestrian; it only slightly enlarges on what other biographers, Wolfe's own letters, and his not yet forgotten presence make clear enough...
...play's beginning: "You're going to die in an hour and a half. You're going to die at the end of the play." His name is Berenger -lonesco's Everyman, who was the clerk in Rhinoceros, the clown in The Airborne Pedestrian. With typical lonesco chronology, King Berenger is about 400 years old, but his reign seems to span thousands of years. He is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow, designing the airplane, splitting the atom, and writing Shakespeare's plays. Once decked in splendor, his throne room is now crumbling in decay. Once...