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Soundproof Flats. For most of its tenants, Habitat's greatest attraction is the fact that it provides total silence and privacy only five minutes from downtown Montreal. From afar, Habitat looks like a pile of blocks casually stacked by an active child; from within, each of those blocks is an apartment -usually a duplex-with its own uncluttered view, private balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows. Each unit, insulated by thick concrete walls and neoprene stripping, is totally soundproof; floors are double coated with polyurethane for easy cleaning, and walls are washable...
...carry To Stewart, Chalmers, Andrews, and Parry Pleasant hellos and pleasant looks For Liller, Smithies. Dunn, and Crooks In Mather House, we'll throw and party For Burriss Young and Skid von State Toast Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orloys Thomas Schelling and Henry Rosovsky We bring glad tidings from afar To Michael Walzer. Judith Shklar, Willard V. Quine and Stanley Cave Jean Mayer, Roger R.D. Revelle, Peter Elder. Martin Kilson William Alfred, J.Q. Wilson Robert Lowell, Robert Kiely. Lawrence Kohlberg. Lawrence Wylie jeremy Sabloff, Jeffrey Brian. J.P. Russo, J.J. Lingane, Albert Sacks and Albert Lord, John K. Fairbank. John M. Ward...
...little desks to await the Premier's entry. After his formal greeting-and his announcement of a "new page" in Sino-American relations-Chou, for an unexpected If hours, became the jovial host. He offered an old Chinese saying: "What joy it is to bring friends from afar." He added: "In the past, a lot of American friends have been in China. You have made a start here in bringing more friends." Did that mean that Peking would now admit American newsmen? Yes, replied Chou, "but they can't all come at once. They will have to come...
...walking stick, landing thirty feet beyond the landing pit and rolling over and over until I bumped into a car, which was owned by my friend Frank, who was sitting in the front with Nancy, and in the back seat was Patty, of all people, whom I worshipped from afar because of her beauty and sad eyes, whom I could barely talk to ("Uh, hi [smile, dig into the ground] there"), and I'd listen to how Coach King was trying to give her shit in study hall (write 2,000 times "I will study in study hall!"), how school...
Significantly, this opposition is no longer centered primarily in the countryside, but has surfaced in the urban areas as well. In fact, Saigon- long an ideal vantage point for "observing" the War from afar- is now the scene of an intensive political struggle. Workers, women, veterans, respectable politicians, religious leaders (including Roman Catholics, formerly among the most anti-Communist, enthusiastic supporters of the War), and of course students, have all taken a public stand in favor of hoa binh - peace. Moreover, for the first time, they have linked this peace with demands for: 1) withdrawal of "foreign" (i.e., American) troops...