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Farber estimated that phase one of the building will cost about $20 million. Phase two--the completion of the six-story tower--will cost an additional $5 to $6 million...
...EBONY TOWER...
...Ebony Tower is a far less ambitious exercise?four stories, "a personal note," and a version of the medieval story of Eliduc. Fowles says he intended these as a series of "variations" on related themes; he leaves the reader to make the connections. In the title story, a young English artist and art critic named David Williams visits an old expatriate English painter, Henry Breasley, in his rural French farmhouse. Breasley, living with an old French couple and two young English birds, gets drunk, rants against Picasso and the century's other departures from the world as the eye sees...
Otherwise, The Ebony Tower is a book as lovely as its dust jacket?Pisanello's Portrait of a Lady. The retold tale of Eliduc, a 12th century Celtic romance, charmingly repeats the story of a knight torn between his love for a princess and his loyalty to his wife. A story called Poor Koko tells of a sort of casual Marxist burglar who amiably loots the guesthouse where a pedantic writer is staying, then, like a Manson of letters, coolly destroys the writer's notes and manuscript for a book about Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th century writer of burlesque...
Arthur MacEwan, lecturer on Economics and the only remaining non-tenured radical in the department, said last week, "the concept of the ivory tower does not apply to Harvard, except possibly to the Classics Department--and I've heard that an ex-student in Classics once wrote speeches for Agnew." MacEwan says that the Government and Economics Departments "are bound up with advising and even running the government," adding, "Consider people like Kissinger, Bundy, Moynihan and Dunlop; consider institutions like the Center for International Affairs. The bourgeois faculty here is well-rooted in the class they serve and the system...