Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe College has also announced the purchase of the red-brick apartment house at 83 Brattle St., Cambridge, effective March 29, 1961. The apartment building will be converted gradually as vacancies occur to accommodate married students from Radcliffe...
...many another Presidential admirer, that John Kennedy and his family might soon suffer ill effects from public overexposure. Wrote Burns: "The buildup is too indiscriminate. The buildup will not last. The public can be cruel, and so can the press. Americans build their triumphal arches out of brick, Mr. Dooley said, so as to have missiles handy when their heroes have fallen...
Padded Cells. Sprouting between steel mills and shipyards, in grimy Liverpool, Manchester or Nottingham, redbricks* were originally founded to nurture local talents. Amenities were few: Leicester's main building (sooty yellow brick) was once the county asylum; the library still has padded cells. Redbrick graduates, generally 9-to-5 commuter students with no chance for donnish tea and tutorials, were hardly considered "educated"-though they included such talents as Novelists D. H. Lawrence (Nottingham) and C. P. Snow (Leicester). Oxbridge so scorned the breed that to this day it insists on calling redbrick Ph.D.s...
...full-scale national universities, redbricks are so besieged that they can accept only one out of seven applicants. Desperately, they are building airy glass-and-steel buildings without a single red brick-centers for chemistry at Leicester and Birmingham, for physics at Hull, for engineering at Liverpool. Entire new universities are due in Brighton, York and Norwich; four more are on paper from Coventry to Canterbury. Last week, Lancashire joined the queue of counties that want their own universities...
...Castle of Otranto. All of this goes on in something that is not to be believed. The Kerr-Hilton, as Jean Kerr calls her home, is both the sum and summary of its contents, a brick and half-timber Tudor-Spanish architectural error on the edge of Long Island Sound. Like the Kerrs, it sits squarely in the suburbs, but its outlines are in fairyland. Built by a rich automotive inventor on the original foundations of the Larchmont Shore Club stables, it looks like the Castle of Otranto, reaching high with turrets and towers and a cupola. It also looks...