Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moving south from Washington Street, the Orange Line cuts through a fascinating cross section of the city. After Essex, the Orange Line is elevated, and the old wooden trestle winds like a drunk through rows of three-deckers, sturdy brick houses with bay windows and modern subdivisions. Be sure to stand at the window in the front of the train next to the engineer's compartment so you can look right out on the tracks. You can chart rising land values by looking at how close new subdivisions come to the threstle--the closer the homes, the more expensive...
Booby Prize. "How many believe what I've said?" Ron asks, and the hands shoot up. "Then you're assholes. Don't believe or disbelieve any of it. Just hold onto it like a brick on your lap." Our aim should just be to "get it"-acknowledge what has been said. Many fear that the philosophy is too deep for them, but Ron says it will all become clear later. Hostile questioners are verbally thrashed and told to "come off your act." Intellectuals, who are already guilty of thinking, are tripped up by est's Catch...
...bank. She was also married to a banker, William Blech, who wrote novels himself under the pseudonym of "William Blake." He died in 1968 and a few years later Stead returned to Australia. She now lives with her brother, a labor union official, in an extension to a small brick house in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville...
...roses and bougainvillaea is as timeless and unchanged as its poverty-stricken population, dressed in layers of worn, soiled clothing, sleeping in rag bundles on the sidewalks, and driving small flocks of donkeys and cows through the main streets. The city is still dominated by the immense, pale brick palace long occupied by Selassie, where the blinds are drawn as if he were only sleeping. Even the Emperor's horses are kept just as they were when he was alive, in their parade stables downtown...
...buildings should emphasize man's relationship to nature. In the country side, his irregular shapes tend to echo the asymmetries of lakes, rocks, plants. Even in cities, he created buildings that separated people from street traffic, often by the use of internal gardens. He preferred to work in brick and wood, because those natural materials were closer to "the human experience...