Word: stendhal
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Modeled partly after Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma, the novel was set in 18th century Italy. But Mrs. Wharton soon turned to her true subject, the world of the American rich and the clash between new and old money. On her native ground she has never been matched, and no other American has ever portrayed so well the sometimes savage drama of life behind the damask draperies of Fifth Avenue and the wrought-iron gates of Newport. By the time of The House of Mirth in 1905, she was recognized as a major novelist and, as an aging...
...examination, conducted by a committee headed by Krister Stendhal, dean of the Divinity School, recommended last November that the Memorial Church post be split into a "troika" made up of a minister, priest and rabbi...
President Bok last spring over-ruled the Stendhal committee's report and announced he would keep a single minister, saying that the religious pluralism of the University made it difficult to fairly pick three representatives from the multitude of religions represented at Harvard...
...Stendahl plan ignores all religious interests outside the Judaeo-Christian axis. In one of the four minority reports filed in protest to the committee findings, Constance W. Williams, a member of Stendhal's Committee, called for an "equitable distribution of resources among the various groups represented in the University." This goal is at the heart of any move toward pluralism. The use of Memorial Church facilities by three groups will do nothing for all those ignored...
...President, Pusey rebuilt the Divinity School, recruiting men like Paul Tillich and Krister Stendhal, and he provided new housing for the Education and Design Schools. Under his leadership, Harvard built skyward for the first time; Pusey oversaw the completion of Leverett and Mather Houses, as well as William James Hall. The Science Center outside the Yard--scheduled for completion next fall--is the last of the building projects planned under the Pusey Administration...