Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Better in Stacks. Instant-housing projects, often financed through public housing authorities, have also appeared in such cities as Atlanta, Rochester and Detroit. Many of the modules come from mobile-home manufacturers, whose ever-increasing output (up 32% this year) now accounts for a quarter of all single-family homes built in the U.S. Mobile homes ordinarily win few architectural prizes, but lately builders have learned how to stack them in handsome configurations. At Puffton Village in Amherst, Mass., for instance, Magnolia Homes teamed up with a developer to create a striking community of 104 apartments from...
...surface, which has a guaranteed life of three years. Says Professional Ice Skater Randolph McCulley: "You can't cheat on Slick or you'll lose your balance. I would advise anyone to train on it. You'll feel like you've been shot from a cannon when you come back...
...against fascism, he preferred a patriot like Churchill to the antifascist pacifists, whom he skewered on a couplet: Which will sound better in the days to come...
...Orwell, political issues were moral issues. He understood that peace and social justice would descend on the world, if at all, from a moral impulse, and where was that impulse to come from? Not from the "self-justifying complacent hypocrisy of the boiled rabbits. . .of the left intelligentsia." The real problem of the West, as he saw it, was to preserve mankind's ethical values- honor, mercy, justice, respect for others -in the face of an almost universal disappearance of a belief in the immortality of the soul. Being naturally a good man, he was a good humanist...
Writing-like the sea-may have given O'Neill a vacation from the kind of dry-land actuality he hated. But by 1920, where Sheaffer ends the first volume, both O'Neill and the American theater were about to come of age, and it had become obvious that the make-believe of drama was where O'Neill most truly engaged life. "Resentful against God, resentful against family, resentful, resentful," as a Harvard classmate described him, he crossed in the right direction the thin line that separates self-pity from pity and hate from love, making a tentative...