Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...import was to be felt decades later, after the end of World War II. Instead of repeating the mistake made almost three decades before, the U.S. and Britain bore in mind Keynes' earlier admonition. The surest pathway to a lasting peace, they then understood, was to help the vanquished rebuild. Public investing on a grand scale would create trading partners that could turn around and buy the victors' exports, and also build solid middle-class democracies in Germany, Italy and Japan...
...Politically, obviously, they are very weak," Grant said. "They're trying to rebuild [their] political clout with nuclear weapons...
When Harvard Planning and Real Estate set out to rebuild the arcade's entrance, Scott Rothkopf '99 devised a plan to install students' artwork on the barriers of the construction site. He chose three artists--Matt Saunders '97, Yuh-Shioh Wong '99 and Emily Hass, a graduate student of design--and the project's only remaining problem was a lack of funds. "We couldn't spend any money at all," says Saunders, who based his piece on a 1940s film of an acrobat biting through a chain. The installation includes one large painting and four peepholes. "Construction barriers are strange...
...University recently earmarked $4 million from its Capital Campaign to rebuild a Memorial Hall tower destroyed by a fire in 1956. And of the $965 million Harvard hopes to raise for the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences by the end of this year, much of that money already has been directed to financial aid, Faculty salaries and University operating expenses, according to the University Development Office...
...second relevant news item of last week is Dean Knowles' announcement of a $4 million project to rebuild a tower atop Memorial Hall which burned down in 1956. "Is it not a fitting end to the century and to the [Capital] Campaign that Memorial Hall should be restored to its proper glory?" he queried. Perhaps I am alone, but I actually think that restoring Mem. Hall to its pre 1956 days could wait, at least until, for example, undergraduates are no longer needed to TF courses. Knowles' announcement illustrates quite starkly where priorities lie--in this typical case, with "glory...