Word: courtyards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exercises will be held at 10 a.m. in Sever Quadrangle, followed by the Harvard-Yale baseball game at 3 p.m., a band and glee club concert at 3:15 p.m. in the Yard, and a senior class dance from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. in the Lowell House courtyard...
...modern village of Pella (24 miles northwest of Salonika), a Greek farmer was digging in his basement in 1957 when he stumbled on two limestone Ionic columns that turned out to be part of the spacious courtyard of a nobleman's house in ancient Pella. At what is now confirmed as Pella's site, archaeologists have since uncovered mosaic floors of exceptional beauty and size-testament to the splendor of Pella's patrician life in Alexander's time...
...much higher standard of living than any Chinese--a standing government policy. Of course we had no car, no television, no washing machine, no steam heat, but we did have a larger meat ration, enough money to buy milk, butter, and eggs, and a house with its own courtyard. In the summer we were given vacations at the seaside, still reserved for the most outstanding model workers. Whenever we travelled, however, we were plagued by red tape and special passes...
Another tradesman to go from door to door is the coal-ball man. At each house he digs up a little patch of earth in the courtyard, mixes in some coal dust and water and then spreads out the resulting paste and cuts it into squares with his hoe. The squares are then tumbled around in a big basket, until the corners are knocked off by the rim of the basket. These coal balls burn very slowly, and of course represent a great saving in coal, since half is just mud to hold the heat...
...works exclusively with live ones. His characters are sharply observed, warmly played. When Manfredi is summoned at last to finish off a condemned man on the sunny island of Majorca, he takes his wife along for their honeymoon. The gay holidays end with a jolt in a bleak prison courtyard where uniformed guards are forced to drag the reluctant executioner and his victim to ward the hour of judgment. The comment is strong but disappointingly literal, for Life loses ground as a first-rank satire when it stops kidding its message and starts preaching...