Word: spires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tower, a parlor for small weddings and other assemblies, a social hall, a youth center and a library with staff offices. It was conceived in the Pilgrim and Puritan tradition of early New England churches, but its form is traditional only in that the white-trimmed gray clapboard and spire convey a sense of historic continuity. The architecture is closer to the modern simplicity of Mies van der Rohe than the baroque intricacy of Sir Christopher Wren...
...when Willard L. Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers, dedicated Memorial Church on Armistice Day, 1932, the names of the 373 Harvard men who died for the Allied cause were handsomely inscribed in brass letters on the travertine tablets of the memorial room, directly below the spire. On the floor lay Harvard's insignia, on the ceiling the seal of the United States--E Pluribus Unum...
...turn, abducted by Lampoon editors. After a daring escape, Maccoby and his cohort flew to New York and presented the bird to the Russian delgation to the U.N. as "a sort of American bird of peace," on behalf of the Lampoon, requesting it be placed on the spire of the new Moscow University. The Lampoon president, John H. Updike '54, who was not amused, lodged an international protest and secured the bird from the perplexed Russians, thus foiling one of the most original attempts at super-power reconciliation of the Cold...