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...said that a third option was to transform the Weeks Memorial Foot Bridge—which he said was in need of repair—into a transit bridge. He said that the bridge could be changed so that it was open not only to pedestrians but also to the Harvard shuttle...
...Harvard received a $7 million donation from Katherine Bogdonovich Loker to transform the basement of Memorial Hall into a student center. Since its conception, the space has been used for number of purposes, including Fly-By lunches for upperclassmen and problem set study sessions, but tends to empty out in the evenings...
...surprise. I had like four days notice. I was in my truck and his office called me. I entered it reluctantly. It wasn't something that I wanted to do. But the nation is at war. I asked him hard questions about whether he was willing to transform the Army the way I felt we had to do it and create the kind of force we needed. He said he was and so far he's held up his end of the bargain...
Like Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White, Carl Mydans helped to transform American photojournalism from a source of inert head shots and ceremonious poses into a supple narrative art. As a staff photographer for LIFE, Mydans was present and accounted for at the darkest moments of a dark century: the Depression, World War II, Korea and Viet Nam. The retrospective of his work at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth offers a chance to review his pictures uncoupled from the periods they defined and the magazine pages they were designed to serve. A museum show is the acid test...
What was the purpose of such headgear, beyond protection, identification and impressing the enemy? To transform, as the sculptor Isamu Noguchi pregnantly suggests in a short introduction to the catalog; to turn the mask, the effigy, into the man; to transcend death in the moment of challenging it. If one can imagine a philosophical hat, the conspicuous helmet would be it. --By Robert Hughes