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...mistakes, but after the presentation of sketches for Allston’s first new building—a science complex—students cannot help but wonder if the University will make all new mistakes, albeit of the same genus. “I’m not a traditionalist, I can tell you that right away,” declared architect Stefan Behnisch at the presentation, though his sketches speak for themselves. The relatively featureless glass and steel polygons certainly were not hideous—but they were not Harvard either. Rather than being different for difference?...
Architectural traditionalists will be relieved to know that the new campus in Allston will not resemble “a wild spaceship.” But advocates of the red brick and white moldings traditionally associated with the Harvard seal may still be disappointed. “What does the new Harvard look like? It can’t be a wild spaceship, and it can’t be a replica of a four hundred-year-old building,” Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of Harvard’s Allston Development Group, told members...
That all changed in 1982. Pope John Paul II, also a creative traditionalist interested in labor and faith, granted Escriv's wish that Opus be a "personal prelature," a global quasi-diocese, able in some cases to leapfrog local archbishops and deal directly with Rome. Almost simultaneously the Pope publicly constricted the competing, more liberal Jesuit order. A perception that Opus' ecclesiastical power knew no limits peaked with Escriv's 1992 beatification, a brief (for those days) 17 years after his death. Faultfinders, notes Allen, claimed that the judging panel had been packed and Escriv's critics blackballed; they viewed...
...only Jim recognizes some spark of genius in him, then all doubt will be banished. Larry is not alone in this hope. The poetry students all idolize Jim and are thrilled to hang out with him at his house or in the local bars. They defend him against the traditionalist administration. But the problem with big stars is their gravitational pull. It's hard for anyone in the vicinity to stop orbiting around them and find their own course. And Jim's ego, manic moods and binge drinking start to make him seem more like a black hole than...
...guests in white tie or lavish gowns. Then there's the matchless beauty of the polonaise, the famous opening dance performed by handpicked debutantes, pictured here. Their grand entrance is as vivid a hallucination of old Europe as you'll ever experience?and something that even the most curmudgeonly traditionalist cannot fault...