Word: broads
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...tradition than grammar schooling in Cambridge; it was not until 1648 that a public school opened here. Located on Crooked St. (now Holyoke St.) across from the present site of the Hasty Pudding Club, the two-story stone building boasted "gable end-s...wrought in battlement fashion," and a "broad chimney on one side, of stone and brick, (which) gave promise of a generous fireplace within." The school's first master, Elijah Corlett, wore a wig and doublet while he taught his pupils--almost exclusively boys looking forward to entering Harvard. The first school moved repeatedly, finally emerging...
Only the entropy paradigm provides a scythe that is both sharp enough to cut through the tangled debris of this death-bound culture and broad enough to clear a path for the dawn...
...works imply a sense of time, not of days and hours as much as of the relationships of the past, present, and future. Broad expanses of land, straight, uninterrupted groundlines, and overhead views emphasize the horizontal and vertical as elements in time as well as space. The flat "wall-houses" exist on what Hejduk terms the "plane of the present." While the optimists of early Modernism spoke constantly of the future, Hejduk sees man as trapped in the compressed, two-dimensional realm of the moment...
...works, Miss makes use of architectural motifs--fences, staircases, walls, roofs and ceilings. Though never trained as an architect, Miss says that her observations of the built environment supply her with a broad vocabulary of forms. Influences come from a wide variety of sources: the Indian sites and abandoned mines of the American West, the horizontal and vertical wood membering of Japanese architecture, the hierarchical order of ancient religious and ceremonial buildings, the false fronts of Hollywood stage sets...
...then, below, a broad lake came into view, a lake glittering with the last light of the day. I stopped to look at it. Something was moving, making a straight line of agitation, like a tear, in the surface...