Word: flea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with cargo headaches. In Iran, ships wait up to three months to dock at Persian Gulf ports, trucks are backed up at border customs checkpoints and valuable military supplies are rusting away out on the sand or in warehouses while authorities try to process them. "It resembles a chaotic flea market," says one U.S. Pentagon officer. An aide to Defense Secretary James Schlesinger has been sent to Tehran to help unclog the backlog in order to make way for still more supplies, including the first of 80 F-14 Tomcats, that...
...Kupka and his mountainous wife Eugenie would peer through the shutters at them, too proud to show themselves. The collectors never stopped at the Kupkas'. In the past, they had been so poor that Eugenie Kupka now and then had to buy old tablecloths and underwear in the flea market, launder them and sell them to raise a few francs...
...collection is literally dreamed up by a young scholar vacationing in California. One night Anthony Maloney falls asleep in an obscure motel, imagining a priceless array of artifacts. In the morning, a flea market of Victoriana awaits him in a parking lot below. Each objet d'art has been produced by his richly informed subconscious. Naturally there are the classic ottomans and clawfoot sofas, the glut of silver tea sets and bridal breakfast services. But there are also treasures from the velvet underground: choice items of bondage, plush Sadean literature, punishment costumes featuring removable posterior panels...
...more important, to most alum's the impact of even the most startling events happening at Harvard are like that of "a flea bouncing off a wall," says Frederick C. Calder '57, headmaster of Germantown Friends School, one of the area's most successful schools for getting people into Harvard. Calder, who more than most is interested in what is happening educationally at Harvard, said he became acutely aware of the conservative nature and security of the institution when he received a mimeographed statement from then-president Nathan M. Pusey '28, sent out after the 1969 strike, comparing...
This photographer is small and hairy-looking (some people called him Flea), and I guess he was one of the best potters at Harvard--at least, he once showed me all the pots he'd made, stacked up like the books in a faculty office, and I commented as extensively as I could on which glazes and shapes I liked the best. They all looked pretty much the same to me, but the photographer had liked me ever since I didn't realize he'd gone to prep school, and I guess I was trying to live...