[Yale architectural historian Vince Scully arose with other leaders to forcefully denounce the plan.] The removal of the [courthouse], ... would serve two cataclysmic purposes, since it would both cut the side of the [New Haven] Green and, in the manner made famous by Orwell in his 1984, cut a central piece out of our civic memory, through which our dignities as men are developed and sustained. -Vince Scully

 

[Yale architectural historian Vince Scully arose with other leaders to forcefully denounce the plan.] The removal of the [courthouse], ... would serve two cataclysmic purposes, since it would both cut the side of the [New Haven] Green and, in the manner made famous by Orwell in his 1984, cut a central piece out of our civic memory, through which our dignities as men are developed and sustained.


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