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...recall one particular after-dinner tea when the women of Comstock Hall were dedicating a new oil painting over the mantel above a crackling fire. It was the portrait of Ida Louise Comstock, namesake of that specific dorm. A speaker recounted for the combined audience of Radcliffe and Harvard students some of the highlights of her inspiring life. Her image then joined those of the other illustrious women who graced the walls of this venerable room. In some quiet way, it served as an inspiration, not only to the young women, but to young men (like me) who would eventually...
During my 25th reunion I returned to Comstock Hall to see if it or I had changed much. Now part of a Harvard House, the living room was still there, but most of the reassuring portraits, comfortable furniture and confident presence were not. Off in a corner, I saw Ida Louise covered in dust, no longer proudly displaying her biographical note or even the brass name tag that once identified her. Is this the sad fate for all of Radcliffe? Heaven forbid...
...fact, why not call this gradual return of Radcliffe College, "The Comstock Plan"? In this way Radcliffe could again be one of the foremost women's colleges in America. Its students could share academic life with male and female Harvard undergraduates. The "separate" existence of each college would be mutually beneficial for both. Radcliffe could reclaim its autonomy and irreplaceable character, once again becoming a place of power, pride and strength, a bastion for women's studies and a wonderful place to attend or visit...
...planting is not orderly--no exotic topiary of Disney's beloved barnyard critters. The look is what Comstock calls "promiscuous and harlequin," a quiet riot of greens, a forest painted by Rousseau. Comstock found some of the plants in Nepal, riding a mother elephant named Durgha Kali who recalled Paul from a previous visit and insisted on porting him again. As Comstock tells it, he would point to plants; Durgha would pull them out and pass them up to her master. Like any good Imagineer, Comstock must not only talk to the animals (and plants) but also put his vision...
Rohde and Comstock help fulfill an old Disney credo: the park is the ride. If the wait time is too long for the big attractions, you can have a blast just glomming the architecture and atmosphere. That is truest in Animal Kingdom. The backrests of park benches are carved as turtles, eagles, crocodiles. Harambe, the African "village" near the safari ride, is not idealized in Magic Kingdom fashion. It is stylized: worn, with cracked pavements below buildings of a Moorish-Disney design that might be called "mosqueteer." For visitors with an antic mind and a free year or two, Dinoland...