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...21pm - Lowell - Carrie was there! Lots of funny stories. Ate half a sesame-seed bagel with cc. Water. More people now, but mostly quiet. Atmosphere: that crazy kid in a kimono still getting...
This is because “Quiet Cornerstone,” a granite sculpture by artist Carlos Dorrien, also a professor of art at Wellesley College, looks as if it’s always been there...
...other words: don’t be afraid to touch, sit, or rest on “Quiet Cornerstone.” It is intended to be as much a part of the contemporary park as the grass or the benches––despite having the added intrigue of the artist’s hand and the historical he has created...
...Quiet Cornerstone” was sponsored by the city of Cambridge, but Harvard itself has created a great deal of public art itself. The most obvious of these is tourist magnet John Harvard himself, the statue by Daniel Chester French sitting in front of University Hall. But there are others scattered about the yard, including “The Onion,” a light steel sculpture at the entrance to Pusey Library, by renowned abstract artist Alexander Calder, and “Four Piece Reclining Figure,” a bronze figural abstraction in front of Lamont library...
...takes a particular type of courage—the courage to be unpopular—to become a whistle-blower. Initially, Watkins, Cooper, and Rowley were warned to keep quiet but they kept talking, like generations of female truth-tellers before them. Look at Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of the bus, galvanizing the country’s civil rights movement. Retired Army Lt. General Claudia J. Kennedy, the highest-ranking female officer, was the one to expose sexual harassment in the armed forces. And it was Erin Brockovich, a minor legal clerk who helped...