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...Leverett Resident Tutor Stuart E. Schechter ignored a vital distinction between behaviors that are hateful toward other groups (putting a swastika up) and behaviors that simply make others feel their minority status (putting a Christmas tree up). The tree, unlike the swastika, is not an anti-Jewish symbol, and the message that came from all the disgruntled Leverittes, and the opinion piece by Shira D. Kieval ’04 (“Tree for Some, Thorn for Others,” Dec. 4), was not that the tree would make them feel hated, but that it would make them...
...World Trade Center, presumably the next proud symbol of pure American capitalism for the next century, go ahead and build it with American steel - but only if it's the best steel, at the best price, that the world market can offer...
What is the value of creation, when there is no permanent symbol of that creation? This is the central question of Windshield: Richard Neutra’s House for the John Brown Family, the current exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The house, named Windshield after the large amounts of glass used in its construction, has achieved more fame for its ill-fate than its revolutionary design. Completed in 1938, the house stood as a beacon of modern design for a mere week before it was significantly damaged by a hurricane. The house was rebuilt...
...despite the meticulous planning, Windshield soon became an ironic symbol for the primacy of function over form in architecture. A week after the Browns moved into their new home, the wind of a hurricane tore off the roof of the house and popped out many of the houses windows and frames. Debris littered the grounds of the house, and it took a year to rebuild, although none of the traditional homes on Fisher’s Island suffered any damage. Not surprisingly, Neutra soon published an essay called “Regionalism,” touting the value of considering...
Albert H. Cho described himself as “generally pretty boring,” a charge his friend, FM co-chair and international sex symbol Vicky C. Hallett, rebutted by pointing out that Albert was just in Qatar at a suspicious-sounding “conference.” He recited an poem about Vicky that he emptily claimed was made up on the spot, which climaxed, in all senses of the word, with him giving Vicky a hickey, which rhymes with Vicky. Other dinner guests refrained from saying anything about the display making them sicky...