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...excelled beyond the professional realm as well, earning a Bronze Star for his service in the U.S. Army...
However laden with multiple meanings, the high-profile selection process has sharpened public perception of the larger role architecture can play within the public realm at an important civic moment. Many architects, however, are concerned about the unintended consequences of this intensive media coverage. If architects are seen merely as a new kind of celebrity, architecture will be just another temporary form of public entertainment. The spectacle will continue while financial interest starts to cast a cynical shadow...
...live (or die) with them. A hero does things; a heroine feels things. Men act; women talk. Men get fired up; women go up in flames. Men exact a righteous revenge; women explore subtleties and ambiguities--their adventure is an internal journey. Movie men live in the boyhood realm of fables, fairy tales; movie women are grownups who confront the real, messy world...
...Earth Drum Council, each individual creates a part of a rhythm that guides everyone’s motions in the room by playing drums or dancing. For Morwen, “rhythm is a direct gateway into a realm in which everything is connected to everything else...
...activity, from tutoring immigrant children in English to volunteering at a homeless shelter, is rightly one of the cornerstones of extracurricular involvement on our campus. But to fulfill its potential, this “direct” side of public service must work in tandem with efforts in the realm of politics and public policy. This political dimension of public service is as important as—indeed, intimately connected to—community volunteerism, yet it does not receive adequate attention and energy from young people on college campuses around the country, including our own. The ability...