Word: binder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to put in a 28-foot road with no curbing. He'd compact it, roll it, lay two inches of black top and dedicate it to the town?and it would be their problem. Now the developer has to lay eight inches of stone with a three-inch binder coat of coarse asphalt and 1½ inches of topping and Belgian block curbing." The result of these and other requirements is that an $8,000 lot may cost another $8,000 to develop, v. $4,000 six years ago. Says Schoeck: "The cost had doubled before the house went...
...into the future: the technological way," Eiseley's lyric musings harkened back to humanity's primal origins and the wisdom in fairy tales. Man's "basic and oldest characteristic," he wrote, is "that he is a creature of memory, a bridge into the future, a time binder. Without this recognition of continuity, love and understanding between the generations becomes impossible...
...fact it was not appropriate that this matter reach the newspaper, but since it has I will explain what only I can explain. I enclosed a copy of a draft of "All Flesh" in a personal letter to Sara Binder, sent to her residence, not her office, for her personal attention. I can of course, in retrospect, understand that, as Poetry Editor of the Advocate, she plausibly (but mistakenly) assumed that I wished it considered for publication. This idea was unequivocally not in my mind at the time. My act was, as it were, a simple "professional gesture...
...print anything that has already been published somewhere else," Binder said. She added that the Advocate did not know the poem had been submitted to any other magazines. "It's an unfortunate mistake," she said...
...Binder said Gustavson should have informed the Advocate that his poem would be appearing elsewhere. "This is an irresponsible act by the author," she said. "He should have advised me that it had been accepted by Padan Aram...