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...respects Martin Dressler is an urban fable about civilization and its discontents, the repression of instincts in the service of progress. Yet this commercial hero also represents a period of social history when ambition and new wealth outstripped utility and taste. Dressler's Grand Cosmo, an architectural and cultural Tower of Babel, is part residence and part theme park. Within its 30 stories and two subterranean levels are a beach, a lake, a model New England village, a Moorish bazaar and a simulated asylum for the insane. Criticized as an example of "the worst excesses of late Victorian eclecticism," Dressler...
...Shachar's study of psychology has already ventured far beyond the ivory tower. In the past three years, he has worked as an organizational consultant for a multibillion dollar corporation...
Next year, Kedlaya will begin studying for a Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton. In the long run, he says, he may enter academia ("hide in the ivory tower and avoid reality"), conduct research for a private company, or work for the "government." He refuses to elaborate further on the last point...
...dorm T-shirt was ready in time for the second semester season of intramural volleyball. A simple "Mower Tower of Power" adorned the front of the heather gray shirt. On the back, we drew a cartoon satirizing the cluelessness of people who did not know where Mower was. The inspirational shirt propelled our anonymous dorm to a first-place finish in intramural competition...
...first year came with a shuttle bus schedule and facebook attached. This gray T-shirt sported a Currier House shield. I wore this one as a badge of my powerlessness in the housing lottery. No matter how we rationalized it, the T-shirt reminded us that the Tower of Power would be moving to the Quad...