Word: sorkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnson's most fervent admirer among critics, Paul Goldberger of the New York Times, who called it "the most provocative and daring skyscraper proposed for New York since the Chrysler Building" and "the first major monument of Post-Modernism." Hogwash, retorted another critic, Michael Sorkin, in the Village Voice: A T & T will be "the architecture of appliqué ... the Seagram building with ears...
Whatever a woman's size or shape, decolletage can slip into disaster for those into strapless chic. The drawstrings and elastic used to hold the garb up are not fall-safe. Arleen Sorkin, a Washington student, remembers the night her strapless turned topless in a Manhattan nightclub. Recalls she with horror: "I ran to the bathroom and cried. And I don't think my date ever recovered." Sorkin, however, was quickly on top of the situation and now owns five strapless outfits...
Still, the regrettable notion that talent will irrepressibly manifest itself prevails among the faculty. Harvard offers opportunities for experience in the theatre, but not nearly enough for learning about it: imagination cannot take the place of discipline and guidance. Roger Sorkin, faculty advisor to the Currier House Drama Society, commented, "I don't think many people with dramatic talent have actually been squashed here, but it takes tremendous drive not to be discouraged...