Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their alma mater. Not so Burma's military strongman, General Ne Win, an alumnus of Rangoon University, who last week handed his old school a painful surprise. On his orders, an army demolition team marched on campus and blew up the two-story Student Union building, whose brick walls have echoed for 34 years with the student arguments of such leaders as Aung San, father of Burma's independence, ex-Premier U Nu, now under house arrest, and capable U Thant, Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations...
Their names, if they were married, were Peg and Tom, Jane and Bill, Jeremy and Jennifer. Single men were always called Brick or Brock or Bruce. Unmarried girls needed a gallant name; it was usually Helen. They lived in a smallish, unidentified city in an immemorial Indiana. The men spoke to each other in a language called kidding ("You old son of a gun"), and the women talked somberly about "our marriage'' as if marriage were a large, fragile china object one kept in the front hall. They led decent, busy lives, and the worst sinners among them...
...filled six-part serials during the great days of the women's, magazines. Their most important characteristic was, as the millions of matron readers knew, and as the writers and editors knew they knew, that the problems and turmoil did not really matter. If you cut into a Brick or a Jeremy (and there was constant cutting; men and children in the serials were fatally susceptible to plot-advancing ailments), you found only a dense, featureless white substance, like the inside of a potato. Spinal meningitis did not really hurt the potato husbands who incurred it, but it gave...
...directness. He proposed to his wife, blonde Estelle Silverstein Ferkauf, on their second date by presenting her with a small suitcase engraved E.S.F. "because that's what your initials will be because you're going to marry me.'' They live in a ten-room brick house in an upper-middle-class section of Queens, where they settled ten years ago, because, as Estelle explains, "It was the nicest neighborhood closest to Brooklyn." Social life consists of visiting the family back in Brooklyn, or having perhaps one other couple to dinner. Their circle of friends is small...
...brick houses of Beacon Hill remain to remind us of the glory that once was Boston's. Louisburg Square, with its 22 houses set around a little garden in the center, best reflects the serenity, the calm, assured optimism, the decorous propriety of the Brahmins of yore. The pattern of these houses is English; No. 20 Louisburg Square was used for the filming of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...