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...Faculty for undergraduate education in September 1972, Robert J. Kiely was the bright young star of the administration. He was young, open, and a scholar, and he had a talent for making friends with the right people. He devoted himself to innovative new programs, and the U Hall stairway outside his office was always jammed with students during his office hours...
...represents a grade change of about nine feet. Hazardous in icy weather, the slope will now be replaced by two sets of stairs--one at the lower level entrance to Lamont, and one near the entrance to the Pusey Library (parallel to Widener's main entry). Unlike the grand stairway of Widener or the less monumental stairways of University Hall, the new stairs do not function as the specific entrance to a specific place, but rather as an integral element of the Yard's pedestrian paths...
...here enters a contradiction: The designers have chosen to treat this area not as a gathering or activity place, which its physical form strongly suggests, but rather as a place to be moved through. The architects' model shows a diagonal circulation path leading from the Freshman Union to the stairway and into the central Yard as the plaza's single strongest feature. Such understated treatment, and the assumption that the Pusey Library's rooftop will have the same character as the ground plane of the old Yard, is a compromise solution which, thus far, is unconvincing. Here...
...good unit set should. Meanwhile, barricade walls slide in and out from the wings, prison bars float gracefully down from the flies. All this has its effective moments, although it seldom looks like medieval Sicily. What Dexter and Set Designer Josef Svoboda have really done is to build a stairway to a bella voce evening - and that is something Caballe and her swains provide...
...Kreisky's mind, nor could Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who rushed from a Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg to Vienna to reason with him. Mrs. Meir spent two hours with Kreisky, but in the end the disappointed leader of Israel departed the Austrian Chancellery by a back stairway...