Word: gate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent a year in the Gate City to the South, which was then still known to some as the Dogwood City, around the time it was trying to become the City Too Busy to Hate. That's the way people in Atlanta might think of it, and that's the way I think of it. We share a weakness for slogans. This was at the beginning of the '60s, and I was a reporter covering the civil rights story. Those who traveled the South back then -- reporters or regional auditors or salesmen with the Southeast territory -- came to roost...
...done, Atlanta's economy still has a lot to do with Atlanta's access to places like Valdosta and Meridian and Demopolis -- I have heard the city described as "a bunch of buildings and stuff next to the Atlanta airport" -- but I suspect no one has called it Gate City to the South for years...
...South of the Gate City era, after all, a city's commercial health was measured in how many years had passed since it built an office building. Every time I return to Atlanta these days, an entire new neighborhood has been forested with high-rises. Twenty years ago, the Hyatt Regency, the prototype for the new boffo-lobby hotels that were in fashion for a while, was a tourist * attraction, drawing sightseers to look at its 23-story atrium and its glass elevators that went, as they said at the time, "clean through the roof" to a revolving restaurant...
Another washtub houses a series of red, yellow and blue kitchen sponges which float at random in the water. When a child opens the flood gates, the water level begins to rise. The gate-master must determine which way the water is running and how to stop the tub from getting full...
...Keven McAlester '92 says that it is the academic atmosphere and the metropolitan area that will bring him through the portals of Johnston Gate this September. A native of Dallas, Texas, McAlester says that he has spent a great deal of time in Boston and Cambridge, and felt there was really no way to turn down a chance to live in a different area of the country or to say no to a Harvard education...