Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in August 1959, homeowners along the stylish Pacific Ocean beaches in Santa Monica, Calif., were dismayed to get a new set of neighbors: a bedraggled platoon of half a hundred men and women, who moved into a rundown, three-story, red brick building that once was a National Guard armory. White and black, young and middleaged, criminals and innocents, artists and loafers, the unlikely assortment shared one trait: they were narcotics addicts determined to kick their habit for good...
Radcliffe College may revise its meal system next year to serve week-day lunches from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Comstock, Moors, and Holmes Halls only. Under the present plan, lunch is provided in all nine brick dormitories from...
...University, through Vellucci's eyes, is in the proverbial tower, if not ivory, then old brick. "Harvard plays no part in the activities of Cambridge. All it's interested in is building its own apartments and dormitories--it is only interested in Harvard." Because of this entrenched isolationism, five years ago Vellucci proposed to make Harvard a separate city in itself, "like the Vatican." To him, this would only have legitimized the status quo. He even suggested an exchange of ambassadors between city and university. And, "That's how Whitlock and Steele (Assistants to the President for Civic Affairs) came...
...women, their parents, psychiatrists and friends, but it is not a very good theme for an entire novel. A snickering approach inevitably blasphemes against Freud, and a serious treatment defames Boccaccio. In this somewhat disappointing book, Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis, most famous of the new British school of "red brick" writers,* takes a seriocomic line, thus offending both heroes...
...called because many of them-and most of their characters-went to "red brick" provincial universities. Amis himself went to Oxford, has taught at a red brick...