Word: egress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to state law, all buildings of public assembly are required to have safe methods of egress and city authorities are responsible for enforcing these codes. But because Harvard is so large--it includes more than 240 buildings--Cambridge's two inspectors are not up to the task...
...confidence-of the national administration." Michael Barone '66 writes in the Lant book. The College was liberal, ambitious-and ready to implode. Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara visited Quincy House in 1966, and several hundred members and sympathizers of Students for a Democratic Society gathered to block his egress, forcing him to climb on top of his car and snottily answer queries about the war in Vietnam...
...public. The rush to grab land, swindle immigrants and kite stock gathered momentum. As a great showman, Barnum hoodwinked the suckers and made them like it. Who could hate a man able to move crowds by changing the exit sign to one that read, "This way to the Grand Egress." His book ratified cynicism as entertainment, if not instruction...