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...election cycle. In the two years since, however, funding has been forthcoming and design work has begun, with aerodynamic testing on scale models under way at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. While political and fiscal obstacles could still scuttle the whole plan, the ships taking shape in the NASA labs are winning deserved raves...
...angle in any of those. Like Antoni Gaudí's Parc Güell in Barcelona, with its swelling plazas and ribboning pathways, the Parasol emerges from a place where architecture meets the unconscious, a source outside the merely rational faculties, one that gives rise to whatever is soft, concupiscent and shape-shifting...
...Harvard history department doesn’t teach courses like that. We think our students deserve better.” One can only surmise that Ulrich’s criteria for “better” and “worse” took shape in the stew of postmodern clichés, identity politics, and disdain for the idea of history in the large that has inundated contemporary academic culture and to which Harvard has been as susceptible as any other institution. NORMAN J. LEVITT ’63 New Brunswick, N.J. March 3, 2006 The writer...
...When we’re born, we don’t know where we are. We find ourselves in the locations of shape, form, knowledge, art,” says Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Tom Conley. Such creatively provocative statements characterize Conley’s artistic and critical method: he examines the world through unexpected lenses, bringing forth questions and meanings that might otherwise remain undiscovered. Born in New Haven, Conn., and raised by parents who did not attend college, Conley never expected to find himself at Harvard as a professor and co-master of Kirkland House...
...would say guilty as charged,” Puchtel said. “I wasn’t into it. It was something I did more to stay in shape than anything...