With its descending branches, it took up the whole center of the herb garden.
Construction of the whole center would take three years, Mr. Kriegel said, and would cost $22 million.
The imam's religious programs will still bear that name, and he seemed to use it to refer to the whole center in his essay in The Times.
Shortly before 3 o'clock, the whole center of gravity on the skyline shifted from Midtown back down to Lower Manhattan — at least symbolically.
"They don't contest that it might lead to the demise of the whole center," he said of child welfare officials.
One scheme, in the spirit of Le Corbusier, even proposed tearing down the whole center of the city and starting from scratch.
She recruited an Erie Canal boat tour, rented the main building to 80 regional companies to display their wares, put in another restaurant and gave the whole center a name: Gems Along the Mohawk.
When U.S. policy makes such a profound lurch to the right, when we start exporting fear instead of hope, the whole center of gravity of the world is affected.
"The whole center of the Middle East is starting to crack up, and, as much as we in the United States are exhausted by these things and would like to avert our gaze, it will be very hard to do that in the future," Filkins says.
His prefatory claim was that after some decades at the end of the last century in which not much good poetry got written, no one would have predicted that "in the next 50 years American poetry would be the best and most influential in the English language," shifting "the whole center of gravity of poetry in English... west of England".
