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Jews were a rarity at St. Paul's when Robert A.M. Stern was growing up in the 1950s, but today Stern's son is an alumnus of the Wasp citadel in Concord, N.H., and Stern has designed its fine new library. Such happy assimilation: the $9 million structure, which fits into and improves a campus blessed with distinguished buildings, is among Stern's best work. It is Richardsonian (the arches, the churchlike massing) but not slavishly old-fashioned, and the jaunty bits (the eyebrow dormers and the tower) mitigate any neo-Victorian lugubriousness...
Jews were a rarity at St. Paul's when Robert A.M. Stern was growing up in the 1950s, but today Stern's son is an alumnus of the Wasp citadel in Concord, N.H., and Stern has designed its fine new library. Such happy assimilation: the $9 million structure, which fits into and improves a campus blessed with distinguished buildings, is among Stern's best work. It is Richardsonian (the arches, the churchlike massing) but not slavishly old-fashioned, and the jaunty bits (the eyebrow dormers and the tower) mitigate any neo-Victorian lugubriousness...
...Gurney has moved from lacerating the Wasp world he came from (The Dining Room, The Middle Ages) to exploring his own guilts in this pair of pieces about the disquiets and discontents of his generation. The Old Boy laments unthinking bigotry toward homosexuals. The Snow Ball yearns for bygone male authority and apparent female contentment with...
...Gurney has moved from lacerating the Wasp world he came from (The Dining Room, The Middle Ages) to exploring his own guilts in this pair of pieces about the disquiets and discontents of his generation. The Old Boy laments unthinking bigotry toward homosexuals. The Snow Ball yearns for bygone male authority and apparent female contentment with...
...Lemme tell you the twist. We call the show Princesses. One of the women is a Jewish-American princess. The second is a wholesome, Middle American sweetheart -- sort of a Wasp princess...