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...Arts Center was acclaimed as a dazzling display of design pyrotechnics. For the city of New Haven, which like Yale is astir with architectural activity, he has put up a parking garage that stretches for two entire blocks, and is probably the world's most esthetic place to stack automobiles. Most recently he has been coordinating architect for Boston's radical new Massachusetts Government Center...
...tend more evening functions, which he dreads. He prefers a dinner of his favorite Pichelsteiner, a sort of Bavarian stew, after which he likes to sit in his black leather chair, looking at documents or playing cards with Luise. While he is reading, Erhard almost always has a stack of classical LPs on the record player: Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Chopin. A fair pianist himself -he once hoped to become a conductor -he tolerates nothing modern. His watchword: ''Not one step beyond Strauss" (he means Richard, not Franz Josef). As he listens, he sips a long, cool Scotch...
Widener officials have failed to extend chasing hours primarily because they have failed to recognize the importance of this improvement. They claim that other University libraries can meet the needs of most of the students who do not have Widener stack passes. But Lamont and Radcliffe Libraries frequently prove inadequate even for regular undergraduate courses. Moreover, an increasing number of undergraduates, such as students in freshman seminars, do special work which requires Widener's resources...
...administrators of Widener also emphasize that undergraduates who do not have passes can obtain books from the stack during the daytime chasing hours. But busy schedules and laboratories frequently force students to use the library at night--especially if they want to read extensively in a periodical or refer to a large number of sources...
...Caretakers, we move to another kind of insanity. Robert Stack is the good psychiatrist who thinks patients should be understood. When he speaks, nothing in his entire body moves but his mouth, which is usually saying something like "Don't you see, Miss Terry, what a little affection would do?" Stack's evil opponent is Joan Crawford, the tough head nurse who favors "the intelligent use of force." There are numerous other wooden people: the cute nurse who tells an earnest young doctor, "You talk like a poet," the very sick girl, who talks for the first time in years...