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...spread the bounty of freedom around to correct the evil. When there is an effort to do that, one has something to celebrate. And still, can you pin it down? Sitting cross-legged on the green, sucking on your McDonald's vanilla shake, listening to the American Legion band play Dolly Parton songs on tubas, can you say what makes you feel different, special, pleased? Maybe it's because you are in a place where the self came to discover what it could do on its own. Because of an unspoken awareness that all people everywhere are alone with their...
...chauffeur for the widow of a Texas oilman. Returning home in 1953, he married Bernadette de Courcel, a classmate at the institute who was from a wealthy and aristocratic family. They had two daughters, Laurence, now 28, and Claude, 23. After fighting in the French Foreign Legion during the Algerian war of independence, Chirac enrolled at the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration...
Moreover, at MOMA one does not see any work of Mies' legion of followers, the modern architects who have remade and ravaged downtowns from Los Angeles to Riyadh. Mies was personally taciturn, but his vision was evangelical. He claimed that he had the answer, that his modern style was an architectural ultimate. "With Mies," wrote MOMA's Drexler in 1960, "architecture leaves childhood behind." In fact, it seems that Mies' example, brilliant in itself, provoked a prolonged architectural adolescence, a period when a stylistic conformism was enforced. To be modern, a building was obliged to wear what Critic Reyner Banham...
Colorful anti-apartheid protests have become almost commonplace at Harvard, grabbing the campus spotlight and overshadowing a legion of her ongoing activist efforts. From the Conservative Club to the Spartacus Youth League, student activism takes many forms. The following selection of would-be movers and shakers runs the gamut from reaction to revolution...
Besides his church base and political legion, Falwell during the past 14 years has created a Fundamentalist college, Liberty University, that teaches 6,500 students on a lush, wooded 4,400-acre campus in Lynchburg. Each year Liberty sends out some 300 graduates to churches around the country, a growing network of supporters ready to serve Falwell's Fundamentalist causes. Thus far, 700 of them are pastors of their own churches...