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There is a crack in the Liberty Bell, a few chips off the Washington Monument, the fountain of youth is but a myth, and, yes, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus. Still, they try to reach perfection; after all, Edmund Hillary could scale Mt. Everest, and who knows, Mt. Olympus might be next. In Cambridge the Fuller Construction Company built Quincy House.
But youthful dreams fade: truth is no longer the hard, shiny thing to pick up and store away; Quincy House has ceased to represent perfection. There has been "an unavoidable delay in completing the house's interior." And so, like the man who came to dinner, the Fuller Construction Company must remain; Art has been postponed for several fortnights at least.
Yes, Leo Roston, there is no Harvard for Hyman Kaplan; not until the Fuller Construction Company leaves Quincy House's transient guest suite. Kaplan's motto is, "always go high." Maybe he'd best wait for the Leverett Towers.
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