Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Night's Dream can do without foliage and magic moonlight. Peter Brook's recent staging of the latter in a glaring white squash court provided an unrelievedly offensive evening. This As You Like It is far from being such a total disaster, but the approach adopted does constitute a barrier rather than a bridge...
...Southern belle, Lindy Boggs is an astute politician. She has been elected twice to the House by overwhelming majorities. She began her political career as a Democratic precinct captain in 1938, managed her husband's campaigns and will be attending her seventh convention. Boggs is breaking the sex barrier as permanent chairman. Says she: "I have great training and physical stamina to be a chairperson. I have the strong feet, strong back and strong stomach of most political wives...
...bound to roll themselves into the base of the memorial, where they can enter the wide doorway of a newly installed elevator, ride up to the rotunda and get a closeup view of Lincoln's statue. That enables the handicapped to surmount what had been for them a barrier to the rotunda, the great apron of stairs that lead to the memorial...
...that is so, one-but only one-barrier to the large-scale development of nuclear power throughout the nation will be removed. The California referendum was the first of a series that safety crusaders are trying to force. Proposals similar to Proposition 15 will be put to Oregon and Colorado voters in November, and efforts are under way to get anti-nuclear measures on the ballot in at least seven other states: Arizona, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Washington. The chances that any will be passed have obviously been weakened by the California defeat. A few months...
...this nostalgic blend of tart and treacle, had never met an American before 1941, when he was 15 years old. He later served with a combined U.S.-British group in London's Grosvenor Square ("Eisenhowerplatz"), and points out that transatlantic camaraderie had everything going against it, including the barrier of a common language. G.I.'s were startled to hear their girl friends complain that they had been "knocked up" (awakened) during the night. "Say, Honey, what do you do about sex over here?" inquired a hope ful Yank in County Antrim. "Oh," said the girl...