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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hurlburt's proposal would convert the small dining room on the Prescott St. side of the Union into a "free flow cafeteria" where each student would pick up his own food. The second floor serving line and dining area as well as the present serving line would be eliminated completely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Hall Dept. Plans Sweeping Renovations for Union | 11/13/1963 | See Source »

...more lyrical, a bit reminiscent of Britain's John Betjeman. A name, a scrap of a news item, a thought from a book is enough to set his graceful mages turning and his lines moving to impeccable rhythms. A sentence by New York Times Book Reviewer Orville Prescott praising two novels for being 'neither overly ambitious nor overly ong" prompts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Light Fantastic | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...Orville Prescott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Light Fantastic | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...Prescott's eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Light Fantastic | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

Play with Figures. Seeing history as a kind of gigantic morality play, Prescott decorated it with figures that are plainly preposterous. His Queen Isabella, for instance, is straight out of the 19th century romantic novel-blue-eyed, fair-haired, and possessed of a piety that "shone forth from the very depths of her soul with a heavenly radiance which illuminated her whole character." It was her remarkable innocence, says Prescott, and her implicit trust in her "ghostly advisers" that caused her to fall under the influence of the villainous Torquemada, who established the Spanish Inquisition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Historian as Novelist | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

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