Word: courtyards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel's great glory used to be its opulent indoor patio, a spacious central courtyard roofed over with glass and studded with palm trees and fountains that was the very symbol of la belle epoque. In the U.S., none rivaled the "Grand Central Court" of San Francisco's Palace Hotel, tiled in marble, lit by gas and roofed with crystal. But as modern cost-efficiency techniques have moved into hotelkeeping, much of the drama and elegance has moved out. Since space is the greatest architectural luxury of all, most new hotel lobbies are mean and cramped-areas designed...
Fewer than one out of ten got none of his first four choices, according to the Administration. But the statistics miss the sapping despair of the student who hates his House's image before he ever steps into its courtyard. One freshman who asked for Adams and was dealt Eliot said that if he had known, he would have written a letter specifically requesting not to be in Eliot...
That same evening in the Leverett Courtyard the Chiffons and the Left Banke will be singing for the listening and dancing pleasure of the members of Adams, Dudley, Dunster, and Leverett Houses and, of course, their dates...
...ceremonies which I imagine would be otherwise tedious to Occidentals. In fact, it is chiefly through the visual manipulations that the movie is comprehensible to Westerners. A few scenes, shot by the walls of the palace or on its roof, recall the periods of magical quiet in the courtyard episodes in Rasho Mon, and it is at these times that the film seems most strange and foreign...
...thinks mournfully of his dead son Rudy, dead ten years, in infancy. But his mind begins to calculate what day Rudy was conceived: Thought of death leads to thought of birth. It must have been that time ... Molly standing at the window, watching those dogs at it in the courtyard and that constable grinning up at her: "O c'mon, Poldy. Give us a touch ..." At Dignam's funeral, later, some men are gossiping about Molly ("a good armful she was"), as they file under the towering rows of crosses on the tombs. Joyce's sense of the everpresent union...