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After his death, John Kennedy's spirit grew to something close to the proportions of deity and the eternal flame could hardly contain it. From all appearances, his family and friends are still hoping to capture the presence of J.F.K.'s expansive spirit in I.M. Pei's library structure, before it slips away and fades into history. (Inflation and community criticism have already done away with Pei's imposing glass tabernacle which, perhaps more than anything else, symbolized that captured presence.) As the Kennedy myth explodes or diminishes in the next ten years and scholars come to view his administration...
...Pei said the planning office had surveyed the prospective occupants of the new building to report on required modifications in his plan...
...they don't ask too many changes, then the design will be ready very soon," Pei said. He is working under the pressure of the tight deadline of the Maguire firm...
However, Harvard, a separate client, has not allowed him to discuss plans for the University building with either the consultant firm or the public, Pei said...
...Harvard makes many changes, it could delay the environmental study, but we won't let that happen," Pei said, pledging to work as fast as necessary to meet Maguire's mid-July deadline