Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finley the essence and strength of Harvard is the House system, the College's defense against the pressure and particularization of the University. "Berkeley shows how good Harvard is. Those fellows out there have no connection with anything." A bit of brick-and-ivy security, "Eliot House is the village within a metropolis...
...Monkey Fizz." The town's only hostelry, the Hotel Aqua, raised its rates to $8 a 'day, and soapboxes sprouted on every corner. Chicago's radio station WGN set up the first nationwide radio hookup to cover the trial in Dayton's bell-towered, red brick courthouse. Bald-pated William Jennings Bryan, munching radishes by the sackful because he was on a diet, starred for the prosecution and sold Florida real estate on the side; Clarence Darrow, in a straw katy and snappy galluses, handled the defense with all the warmth of a cobra...
When it comes to civic action, though, the Marines insist that the "gimme and giveaway" days are gone for good. Says Colonel Holmgrain: "We will not lay so much as the first brick or provide the first pound of cement for a school or clinic until Saigon first produces a teacher or a medical technician." Moreover, the villagers themselves must participate. If the villagers put three or four months of their own sweat into a project, the Marines figure, they will take better care of it and fight any Viet Cong attempts to take over or destroy...
...Khan landscaped Xanadu. Conceived by Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin, the master plan, to be executed with some $15 million in public and private contributions, would turn the city's labyrinthine back alleys into pedestrian greenways or community plazas, vacant lots into vest-pocket parks, and dreary asphalt into brick or patterned pavement. Like Lady Bird, who is now on the list for the first time, Washington ought to become one of the ten best dressed in the world...
...faced, big-limbed, silent nitwits" encountered in the English grammars that he mastered before Russian, "now drift with a slow-motioned slouch across the remotest backdrop of my memory." On the Nord-Express, "I saw a city, with its toylike trams, linden trees and brick walls, enter the compartment, hobnob with the mirrors, and fill to the brim the windows on the corridor side." A telephone number rises from the welter of years: "What would happen if I put in a long-distance call from my desk right now? No answer? No such number? No such country?" Highest Rank...