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Harvard's Dining Hall Services and Facilities Maintenance last week gave the Freshman Union rotunda a facelift, making the popular alternative to the gloomy main dining hall a little bit brighter...
...rotunda is actually a lovely room," said Director of Harvard Dining Services Frank J. Weissbecker. "But the Venetian blinds were rotting. The floor was dangerous with ruts. And blinds are terrible dirt accumulators," he said...
...that Jefferson's ideas about building illustrate the ideas of the American Constitution. But they certainly grew from the same origin -- the secular humanism that, despite the gaudy bleatings of today's religious right, was their common moral root. Thus the calm, measured, lucid interior of Jefferson's Rotunda, the focus of his "academical village" (the University of Virginia), declares the value of reason and persuades us that humane analysis, not blind faith, is the true measure of a decent society. We sentimentalize Jefferson and his colleagues if we suppose they were not elitists. His buildings, like other major expressions...
Well stated by a man who hated the very idea of giving up anything to the opposition. Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole wants Reagan to come up to the Hill and meet with the bipartisan leaders in the Rotunda and there, in those streaks of sunlight that flood the old stone floor, strike a mutual doctrine on debt and spending and trade. In the shadows of the Speaker's Lobby last week, a Republican leader cocked his eye toward the House floor, teeming with old and new members in their first session, and said, "Ronald Reagan is still more popular...
Such is the opening to Jennifer Bartlett's mid-career retrospective--the rotunda installation is her most recent work, Sea Wall, 1985--and it sets the tone of expectation very well. The large, the environmental and the obscurely systematized are here conflated with the small, the decorative and the pleasurable. It is as though the didactic strategies of conceptual art, its obsession with ordering and naming and listing, had been given play among the stereotypes of joie de vivre fixed a half-century or more ago by Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy. At 44, Bartlett is almost the quintessential example...