Word: atop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ones who noticed said they could not have asked for a better setting. The scattered buildings of the century-old hospital sit atop a wooded hill, and its prep-school-like appearance is in marked contrast to the dingy institutional air of Massachusetts Mental Health, the other Harvard-staffed hospital where some students go. At McLean, new patients go through a month of "work-up"--sessions with a doctor in which the patient's case history is reconstructed in minute detail. After that, a therapist is carefully selected and the patient sees him several times a week...
...Atop its sturdy base, the Los Angeles Times (circ. 861,350), it has added magazines and book-publishing companies, including the New American Library...
Rudenstine's manipulation of the Hum 6 mystique has probably won him the most fans. Perched cross-legged atop a table in a dreary, third-floor Sever room, he gently probes the intricacies of Eliot and James and Shakespeare, urging his section towards the Hum 6 View of the World. It doesn't always work: the Hum 6 magic-show of extracting meaning from symbols overwhelms some students and exasperates others. But they keep coming back. "Because we love Mr. Rudenstine," a Cliffie says...
Safe within the sanctuary of an ordered society, dreaming of glory--Walter Mittys of the left (or are they left?)--they play at being revolutionaries and fancy themselves rising to positions of command atop the debris as the structures of society come crashing down...
...capital of discontent. Into Hué last week Giap sent elements of five of his North Vietnamese regulars, supported by Viet Cong local soldiers?an estimated 2,000 men in all. They seized the Citadel of the ancient royal palace, dug in and raised the Viet Cong flag atop its crumbling battlements. Then they released from jail some 2,500 prisoners, including 400 Viet Cong...