Jane Jacobs, “Down-to-earth Cassandra”

“Jacobs’ long run as a complex, down-to-earth Cassandra: a woman who wore comfortable shoes while dishing out uncomfortable truths, who kept her ear to the ground while trying to topple giants. What Jacobs hated most — what she saw in Robert Moses, and what she always tried to avoid in her own public appearances after she gained a measure of fame — was what she called the “Olympian vantage point” of the planners who were trying in the postwar years to apply the spare, muscular forms of Modern architecture to the design of entire cities, hollowing out old neighborhoods and running giant overpasses along waterfront promenades.”

Diamond With Seven Edges

This year’s New York City Ballet Diamond features seven chorographers. “Now in its sixth installment, the project was the idea of Peter Martins, balletmaster in chief of City Ballet. And he had an enthusiastic sponsor in Irene Diamond, a feisty former Hollywood script and talent scout who became a philanthropist. Today her fund is a major sponsor of the project.”

Dartmouth Review At 25

“For a quarter century, its jaunty pages have enlivened the idyllic campus in Hanover, N.H., challenging liberal presuppositions — sometimes raucously — while earning recognition as a model for conservative newspapers nationwide. Distributed door to door to every student and mailed to subscribers across the country, the Review has been at the center of stormy cultural and political debates since its inception.”