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...East. Since the McCarthy era's purge of the State Department's China hands, infrequent reassessments of U.S.-China relations have fallen upon an ignorant, almost immature, China desk. The costs of this ignorance have been staggering. While it is more dramatic to suggest proximate solutions to redress the triangular balance of power, it is this deep-seated myopia that must first be corrected. Until full diplomatic relations are established, the U.S. will remain blind as it develops a haphazard, episodic Far-Eastern policy...
...massive lintels, and the low triangular-coffered ceiling in areas off the atrium, are made of exposed reinforced concrete. But it is not the coarse béton brut introduced to architecture by Le Corbusier. The concrete looks almost as fine as beeswax. Poured into forms as carefully made as cabinets, and impregnated with marble dust, it becomes an extraordinarily subtle substance with a pink surface bloom. Though the building looks handmade throughout, it is reticently so. Nothing in its materials or their articulation interferes with the job in hand: to display works of art in tranquillity...
Fitted into the triangular concourse of the new East Building is a big gallery for special exhibitions, with 17,000 sq. ft. of space. This week the entrance to that gallery is flanked by two life-size figures of armored jousting knights on horseback. They introduce the huge exhibition titled "The Splendor of Dresden," an assembly of objects borrowed from the East German city, which for centuries has been famed for its collections of art and other treasures. Observed one 19th century writer: "Heaven and earth were moved in order to bring together on the Elbe whatever could still...
...architect's model of the Square as it will appear after the extension is completed in 1982 includes a newsstand in place of the subway entrance, and a triangular, tree-lined plaza in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank...
...architect's model of the Square after the extension is completed, which appeared in the "Red Line News," an MBTA publication, includes a newsstand in place of the subway entrance, and a triangular plaza in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank. The section of street now in front of the bank is depicted as a walkway...