Word: fans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because of the Johnson Administration's decision to grab every possible means to win Ohio in this year's election." That was not quite fair: Young has indeed been a down-the-line supporter of Democratic Administrations, and Johnson, although a charter member of Glenn's fan club, stayed out of the Ohio hassle...
...form. Forty years later, Chicago's 1933 Century of Progress Exposition helped spread the gospel of contemporary architecture with its buildings in the "modernistic" style - forests of blue mirrors, thickets of chromium stair rails, and jungles of neon tubing; it also gave America the fan dance. New York's 1939 fair brought a sense of monumentality combined with reason to architecture, with its carefully planned plazas of glass brick and fluted stucco. It also floated the Aquabelle...
Garnett's heroines are 14-year-old twin sisters, Fan and Niss, who have managed to stow away aboard the ark. Noah is a bearded, wine-guzzling patriarch who, during 20 years of building the ark, has never lost faith that he "walked with God." When the townspeople jeer him, Noah thunders: "God will sweep you all away, but He loves me and my children for we are His servants...
Surveying the sea of corpses, Niss asks: "What's Noah getting out of it?" "Everything," answers Fan. "An obscure drunkard in a hick town in Palestine whom everyone laughed at has his revenge on his neighbors, and becomes the sole progenitor of the world to be. You can't beat that...
Even the most devoted Harvard fan could not have felt a twinge of compassion for the bumbling Green, who lost their eleventh straight game of the year...