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...spent at coursework, the imagination and creativity both inspired and refined. But, like a mirage in the desert, Harvard--and the image it projects--becomes less and less impressive the closer one looks. Turn to Holworthy or Hollis, and you're likely to detect the sounds (and perhaps a whiff) of the 1980s, spoiling the sense of placidity. And it's doubtful that much besides taste has changed since the days when Lippmann and Reed attended classes in the Yard. Harvard loses its glory when it goes from general to specific. Not the individual students--but the path...
Most 1981 design was not bad. It was awful. But the few new urban places, buildings, industrial products and graphics that were good, were very, very good. The awfulness was not just a matter of bad taste. A little kitsch in dull surroundings can be as endearing as a whiff of horse manure in the city. The dismaying pollution of the cityscape, like that of the language, stems from illiterate and, worse, semiliterate pretentiousness...
...Adviser Richard Allen, the department is trying to determine whether he may have violated any laws by accepting two watches valued at $270, or by misreporting the date when he sold his consulting business. Both Donovan and Allen have survived previous inquiries into their conduct. But this time, the whiff of scandal has become so politically damaging that the Administration may cut them loose no matter what the Justice Department decides...
...bring a new twist, a fresh revelation. The drama starring National Security Adviser Richard Allen is dragging into its fourth week, and the fact that it lasted so long without fading away was becoming its most important feature. Nothing has been proved. Nothing has been disproved. But a whiff of impropriety hangs in the air. That troublesome scent was enough to force Allen out, at least temporarily: on Sunday Allen announced he was taking an "administrative leave" from his job, effective immediately, for the duration of the Justice Department's investigation of the affair. "I fully expect to resume...
...leading to John and Shyla Irving's house is flat black and conspicuously free of lettering. But the sign on the garage at the top of t he road reads THE DOG BITES. He does, too, under the name of Stranger, part shepherd, part Husky, part senile. One whiff of the garage where Stranger lies dreaming is enough to realize who probably inspired Sorrow, the old Labrador...