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Each day it will be inhabited by 17,000 people. Most of them will be whisked into the building by four electric escalators moving directly from Grand Central Terminal itself into the grandiose lobby brooded over by a bust of the founder, the late Erwin S. Wolfson. The fastest of the building's 65 elevators will rocket passengers to the top at the rate of two floors a second...
...ruin the view down Park Avenue (it does). Commuters were fearful that it would overtax already swarming Grand Central Station. Argued Yale Professor Vincent Scully: "Except for brute expediency, it shouldn't be there at all." It was suggested that the site be used for a park instead. Wolfson agreed, but added conclusively: ''Who can afford to dedicate a $20 million plot to a park...
Playing opposite her as Carmen, Anne Lilley Kerr tackles a difficult role with intelligence. She manages to combine peasant piety and a whore's toughness in a complex and graceful way. John Wolfson (Chief of Police) is a fairly limited actor, but his part doesn't require much more than the two or three inflections he uses to good effect. He might, however, practice twirling a cigar some more before tonight...
...personal tributes by many of Wolfson's closest associates, such as Profs. Jakob Rosenberg, Morton White, Austin W. Scott and the late Arthur Darby Nock are deeply touching in their sincerity and warmth, and evoke a vivid picture of Wolfson's Harvard--Widener Library, "Wolfson's table" at the Faculty Club, the Square, and the University (now Harvard Square) Theater. It is at once one of the great things about Harvard and one of the saddest that these everyday sights mean so many different things to so many people. To Wolfson pre-eminently they are a setting for "his work...
Prof. Twersky's piece clearly shows, in its incisive and gently ironic style, the influences of Prof. Wolfson himself. Stone's piece is often awkward, and far too serious for what could have been a delightful account of Wolfson's eccentric life and habits. And as all academic biographies do, he includes the inevitable description of the scholar's office, littered high with papers and books, in which the genius can find a 20-year-old magazine within seconds...