Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnsbury, Vt., population 6,809, could be the archetypal New England mill town. Except for city cousins and stray tourists, the prim stillness beneath the elms is rarely disturbed by outsiders. The world-and even St. Johnsbury itself-seems unaware that the brooding, red brick building across from the courthouse is the U.S.'s oldest unaltered art gallery still standing.* Founded in 1871, the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum grew out of the 19th century fashion for industrial tycoons to dabble in the arts. Horace Fairbanks, whose uncle invented the platform scale, and whose family built the invention into the Fairbanks...
...recently to normal sales transactions. Now it is being rapidly extended to cover the sale of almost any product that has some potential danger-from roller skates to airplanes. A key precedent in this process occurred in 1960 after a New Jersey driver slammed his new car into a brick wall, apparently because the steering wheel was defective. Even though the trial judge was unable to find evidence of negligence by either manufacturer or driver, he held the manufacturer liable for breach of an "implied warranty" that the steering wheel was safe. The New Jersey Supreme Court upheld the verdict...
...result, by general agreement, was the most exciting interpretation of the Nibelungen legend ever. The usually reserved audience in Bayreuth's red brick Festspielhaus stamped and cheered till the rafters shook. Munich's conservative Siiddeutsche Zeitung described the production as "a truly sensational feat of music and stagecraft, which surpassed one's highest expectations. A pace-setting event in the history of opera...
...battle to get their children into the best of the city's private nursery schools (cost: $550 a year and up). Chapin, for example, likes graduates of nursery schools run by the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest (irreverent parents dub it "the celestial snooze") and by the Brick Presbyterian Church. Prudent parents apply to at least three nursery schools, since they cannot be sure that they or their child will pass the tough admission interviews. One worried couple hired a tutor to teach their boy how to cope with coloring books...
...banners flying high. On a sunny day at Bailey's Beach, 15 Cushings can be seen at one time, flanked by Drexels, Auchin-closses and Van Alens. Neither high taxes, lack of servants, nor the Newport Jazz Festival can drive them out from behind their wrought-iron gates and brick walls...