Word: window
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted to be an enigma. I wanted to be the kid who could have gone anywhere in the country and went to Harvard. People who weren't involved with basketball were impressed but a lot of those who were felt that I had thrown my basketball career out the window. I was ready to change Harvard basketball. I wanted a good education--no, a Harvard education. The biggest reason why anybody comes to Harvard is because it's Harvard...
Members of the minority task force had expressed concern that the new admissions administrator not be mere window dressing. They rejected suggestions by some faculty members that the new administrator work primarily as a counselor for minorities as "based on a mistaken belief that minority students' lives are problem oriented...
...quietly desperate, controlled but with implications of wild danger." Halprin's latest work is a cascade for Seattle's Freeway Park. Like Alph, Kubla Khan's sacred river, the Seattle cascade plunges through a chasm, this one measurable to man, down to a sunless picture window through which park visitors can watch traffic on the adjacent freeway underpass swim silently by like fish in a tank. That was one intent of the design-to drown out the downtown freeway's noise. "It's like action painting," Halprin explains. "My works are not fulfilled until they...
...Yard always looks pretty much the same. When it's nice out, you can see things with remarkable clarity--from a window in Holworthy you can pick out people frolicking in front of Matthews, and the sound of stereos blaring out of windows rattles the sills far into the night. Saturday night was that kind of evening, but it was special because it was the first big night of Freshman Week, that unavoidable whirl of partying, anticipation and one-upsmanship that is somehow an appropriate introduction to the strange little world that is Harvard...
...height of the partying, I look up to see someone looking down on the action from a second-floor window. The person does not look happy. A woman in the crowd notices the observer too, and waves, shouting a cheery hello. Instantly, the face disappears from the window. The woman below shrugs her shoulders and returns to the fray...