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...estimated 2.7 million people ride New York City's subways each day, most of them using 75? tokens. But so many foreign coins, manufactured slugs and whatnot are stuffed into the turnstiles that the financially troubled system loses up to $1 million in revenues each year. Now there is a new drain on income: a 17½? token issued in October by Connecticut Turnpike officials for use in the state's automatic toll booths that is almost exactly the same size and shape as a subway token. Says one New York official: "Somebody did some sloppy work...
...remarked to a friend. "I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this [desk] and placed in the center of that green plot in front of the Archives building. I don't care what it is made of, whether limestone or granite or whatnot, but I want it plain, without any ornamentation, with the simple carving 'In memory...
Later architects, from Robert Venturi to Michael Graves, may seem to be coming out in favor of vernacular, complexity, decoration, memory and whatnot-the whole postmodernist bag of tricks, from Cape Cod shingles to Roman arches-but are all pointy-headed clones of the Compound, still seeking to exalt the Word (theory and manifestos) over the Act (workable buildings). Real populist architecture has no chance. Within the taste centers, Wolfe says, "there was no way for an architect to gain prestige through an architecture that was wholly unique or specifically American in spirit." What was this spirit, this ignored Zeitgeist...
...introduction, Anthony Lewis '48, former Crimed and now New York Times op-ed pager, describes this collection of Crimson news stories, essays, editorials, letters, cartoons and whatnot as "...more than a book about The Crimson or about Harvard University over the last hundred. It is I think, a piece of social history...
...brought out their satiric vehicle, and it has served them quite well. Today they have fancy offices on Madison Avenue, plush brown carpet and lots of smoked glass (a/k/a/ executive hip) and like good businessmen they've diversified--going into records, off-Broadway shows, T-shirts, radio hours and whatnot. A few of their kids even helped start the once-hysterical Saturday Night Live. And while success has been good to them, it has also made them a little stale. The magazine is nowhere near as funny as it once was--unless, of course, it's just that its readers...