Word: brickish
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...present rate, barring bankruptcy, Radcliffe will find itself, several years from now, an imposingly brickish place populated by girls who grew up together in Scarsdale, or Darien, or Chevy Chase--with an occasional black face or two. Maybe that's what the administrators want...
...centuries, Britain's poets have sung of Oxford's "dreaming spires"; but they have done some worrying about them, too. Shops and factories have been creeping in upon the spires like jungle weed-"a base and brickish skirt," cried Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1879, that "sours that neighbor-nature thy grey beauty is grounded best in . . ." Last week the base and brickish skirt was creating a bitterer furor than ever. The center of the storm: the Oxford and District...
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