Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dwelled in Rome surrounded by the skeletons of Borgias. (The Catholic immigrants, flocking together in a consciousness of their own differences, and with some desire to preserve them, seemed to confirm nativist fears.) When Pope Pius IX in the 1840s followed the example of European monarchs and sent a block of marble for the Washington Monument, a mob threw it into the Potomac. Through the 1850s, the violently antipapist Know-Nothing Party flourished, to be supplanted in succeeding generations by the Ku Klux Klan, which went after Catholics as well as Jews and blacks...
Everywhere else in his stories, Voinovich judiciously stirs a bit of pathos in with the farce. "What I Might Have Been" is both the earliest and the best in this collection. A construction foreman tells why he resisted his superiors' demand that he declare a block of apartments finished before it's ready. The narrator is no warrior of dissent; his only reason for stepping out of line is that he "doesn't like sloppy work." Voinovich characterizes his hero and the people around him with spare strokes of wry description and an occasional slip of the knife...
Henry J. Steiner '51, professor of Law and an active member of a group of faculty members who shared a concern about the library's impact, says the group's single dominant concern was increased traffic. An influx of cars and people into the area, the group maintained, would block access to the Square, increase air pollution levels and overcrowd the area...
...federal grants and donations from the public. It is woefully inadequate. Priceless books are disintegrating in the humidity because there is no air conditioning. A backlog of 200,000 acquisitions in storage may take two decades to process fully. There are only 19 guards for five stories of two block-lengths each. Says veteran Library Official Walter Zervas: "If ever there was a treasure house that's going to wrack and ruin, it's this...
Returning to the gridiron for his third year on the Harvard varsity, Scheper's football prowess earns similar praise from his football teamates and coaches. Offensive line coach Dick Corbin says, "He's a leader on and off the field. Scheper's strength is his ability to block bigger people," the coach adds and teammates agree...