Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been rigged against the lowly graduates of Britain's state-supported schools; the report suggests that some of the money should go instead to enlarging the faculty. In effect, Oxford prefers to continue educating boys from private preparatory schools and leave the education of others to the red brick colleges and such new universities as Sussex and Essex. All of this lends credence to a recent howl by an undergraduate magazine that Oxford is "a piece of the medieval world in which few earn their keep and in which idleness, frivolity, conceit, class prejudice, petty politics and corruption...
...applicants with admittedly valid reasons for moving out of college housing. The room drawing which was devised for handling the situation resulted in such absurdities as forcing 22-year-old seniors who have lived aboard and in 83 Brattle for the past two years to move back to brick dorms...
These actions have created dissatisfaction among students who dislike dormitory living, and have not ended overcrowding in brick-dormitories with economy doubles...
This odd proposal is really, according to the anonymous Cliffie, a protest against the college. Radcliffe has refused to let her to move off-campus next year, because she won't turn 21 until February. She can't bear living in the brick dormitories and feels she needs the privacy of an apartment to write an honors thesis in History and Literature...
High in the hills above Hollywood's Sunset Strip, a brick path worn slippery as slate leads to a sturdy, plain studio. Inside lives the man who last week was the most talked-about artist in all Los Angeles, 38-year-old Edward Kienholz. To keep in line the crowds thronging to see his work, the Los Angeles County Museum took the precaution of canceling all days off and vacations for its guards...