Word: bows
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...Again, the Western press will be accused of "cultural aggression" against Third World countries, of perpetuating a "monopoly" of the news flow, of "distorting" the Third World's staggering problems of development. In Third World coverage, claims UNESCO's Senegal-born director-general, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Western editors favor negative over positive, excitement over substance: "Their attention is more easily drawn to sensational disasters or to the witticisms of some publicity-seeking leader than to the desperate efforts of whole peoples to escape from the crushing poverty that afflicts so many of them...
...drawn by the College. And Cantabrigians, Sutton reports, "delighted in a display of wealth... They built mansions and created manicured landscapes, planted with exotic trees and shrubs imported from England and France." Certain of the settlers could even be accused of bad taste: Winthrop House, on the corner of Bow and Arrow streets, "became the gay social center of the pre-Revolutionary days" in spite, or perhaps because, of "two life-sized wooden figures of Indians in paint and feathers and armed with bow and arrows (who) sentineled the principal entrance to the grounds." Ostentation was the order...
...next 100 years of Cambridge history is marked by slow, steady growth. All the land to the east of Quincy and Bow streets, extending through what is now Cambridgeport, was known as The Neck--acres upon acres of pastures, woodlands and marsh used only for farming. And in the other direction, Cambridge was an assortment of far-flung towns. At its greatest length, in 1651, the town was in Higginson's words, "long and thin, as becomes an overgrown youth, measuring 18 miles in length and only a mile in width. It is shaped like a pair of compasses...
Remember when the Yankees replaced combative manager Billy Martin with easygoing Dick Howser? Well, the Father's Six bar is undergoing a similar facelift this fall, as its management hopes to parlay its new name--The Bow and Arrow Pub--and different decor into larger, more peaceful crowds for the establishment...
...high school Spanish for eleven years, Levenson amused his pupils by recounting tales of his poor but happy childhood and strict but loving parents. ("Our menu at mealtime offered two choices-take it or leave it.") After he turned his classroom routines into a nightclub act, the portly, bow-tied comedian was an instant hit on television and host of his own show in the 1950s. His storytelling often shaded into serious commentary on child rearing and modern morals: "It's not matriarchy we have to fear-it's kindergarchy, government of the children, by the children...