Word: domes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply too arrogant a presumption to say flat out that kind humans are alone in the universe," he says. "Sometimes this kind of mystical belief rings truer than the cleanest scientific logic. That's why I dig Shelley's poetic leap of faith: Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity...
...when rail passengers count themselves lucky if they can get stale sandwiches and warm soft drinks, the Auto-Train will seem like Queen Elizabeth 2 on wheels. For adults, there will be cocktails and complimentary hors d'oeuvres in each of the 13 full-dome coaches. The kids will be entertained with cartoons and a G-rated movie. At 9 p.m., a sitdown buffet will be served (Beef Wellington or lobster), followed by another movie for the grownups and drinks until 3 a.m. in a lounge complete with vocalist. For an extra $40, a couple can have a compartment...
...Follette, Nye was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into World War II, he popularized the phrase "merchants of death" to describe munitions makers, later was one of the drafters of the 1936 Neutrality Act barring U.S. aid to belligerents...
...unsettled idealists to live on next to nothing. Others, while still in college, will try to line up what are usually called "alternative" jobs, meaning jobs that suit the new alternative lifestyle. In some college placement offices there are folders containing information about how the kids can get into dome building, blacksmithing, pipefitting or free-school teaching. At Oberlin, there is even an "alternatives" office, staffed by ten volunteer students, and several other colleges and universities have appointed "alternative vocations placement counselors." A graduate divinity student named Robert J. Ginn Jr. has the job at Harvard; he estimates that perhaps...
...umbrellas come with a variety of names: Storm-Belle, Birdcage, Dome and Giant are some of them. All of them are selling out (at $8 and $9). At Bloomingdale's department store in Manhattan, 200 bubble-tops went in just one cloudy morning last week. It was almost a letdown when the sun came...