Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visitors still pause at People's Park, straining for a whiff of the tear gas that drifted off long ago, they will be disappointed. Berkeley, Calif., is in no danger of becoming the colonial Williamsburg of the student revolution. Grass-roots activism doesn't leave much behind in the way of bricks and mortar. What has survived is the politics that once tied the place in knots. So Professor Robert Alter, one of the nation's best-known literary scholars, finds himself an officer in the culture war over the Western canon...
...brought it in was Thomas Jefferson, in his role as architect. Educated in Williamsburg, Virginia, he despised its provincial-English buildings as "rude, mis-shapen piles." Jefferson found his model for a new American architecture in the south of France: a Roman temple, the so-called Maison Carree, or Square House, which he felt exemplified the candid virtues of the old Roman state. It became the basis of his design for the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, completed in 1799. It was the first temple-form state building to be erected anywhere in 1,500 years--new because...
What could have produced such a huge outpouring? That's what mystified astrophysicists meeting in Williamsburg, Va., last week. As most college freshmen know, antimatter is unstable stuff. Whenever antimatter and matter collide, they annihilate each other, disappearing in a blast of intense radiation. Thus while the Big Bang probably created almost as much antimatter as matter, virtually all of it, scientists believe, was consumed in a frenzy of annihilation long ago. In today's universe, antimatter must be created anew. And it is--in the form of subatomic particles, at least--in giant particle accelerators on earth...
...Square should be preserved, but it's not colonial Williamsburg," said Lerer, who is a Crimson editor. "Harvard Square used to have cows and horses. Change can be useful...
...Mack truck full of daisies. As you peel yourself off the macadam, you're free to cry out against all that is filigreed, twice marinated and hand dipped. You may even be allowed to live. But you will know you have met the woman who sold colonial Williamsburg to Levittown...