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...original library plans contained provisions for an 85-foot glass pyramid and two 350-seat theaters. Pei eliminated the pyramid and the theaters, however, from the design last April...
When the Library Corporation announced earlier this month that the monumental 85-foot-high glass pyramid would be replaced by a lower-slung brick museum, community groups attacked the move as a "cosmetic" change. They said the alteration in the museum was designed only to save money without cutting down the square footage--or the scale--of the museum itself. In addition, critics claimed architect I.M. Pei's separation of the library complex into two buildings was a small concession to professors who did not want tourists tramping down their ivy-covered hallways...
...KENNEDY LIBRARY has been a sad effort. The obstinacy of both sides just convolutes the whole issue, everyone gets heated, a lot happens, and nothing ever gets done. During the first week in April, Pei cut out the glass pyramid, the City Council by a 5-4 vote reaffirmed its desire to see the library constructed in Cambridge, and an advisory committee of Harvard and MIT professors met with representatives of Maguire. The same week Maguire requested a two-week extension on its contract and students in the Graduate School of Design announced they would take a poll...
...triangle has pyramid-like endurance, persisting for some 40 years. In the best of circumstances, it would strain credulity; with Molly played by dull, spunkless Blythe Danner, its strength is incomprehensible. Although she is a sweet enough young thing, even in the early going she suggests no mysterious depths of feeling, intelligence or sexuality that would require more than 40 minutes to plumb. As she ages-and life plays its usual mean tricks on the three of them-she seems a pleasant, easy kind of woman but not the focal point around which three lives are built...
...design under preparation by architect I.M. Pei will omit an 85-foot-high glass pyramid, eliminate two 350-seat auditoriums and place the John F. Kennedy School of Government in its own building on the 12-acre site...