Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to reduce traffic in the Yard, University officials have made the Mass Ave. gate behind Widener Library the main delivery entrance, replacing the West Yard's Johnston Gate, Harvard officials said yesterday...
Since Widener is the destination for most vehicles, the proximity of the Widener gate makes it a more convenient delivery entrance than Johnston Gate, and using it will cut down on traffic inother parts of the Yard, said Jeffrey L. Smith,parking office manager...
...easy to attribute archetypal significance to events that are as far away as Germany. It's easy to speak of the Brandenburg Gate as theentrance into "bourgeois society." The world is not so centered as that, though. Admittedly, "bourgeois" is one of the world's vaguer words, but it nonetheless seems to me that Johnston Gate in Harvard Yard has a lot in common with the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. They're both gateways into a sort of bourgeois way of life...
...East. At Checkpoint Charlie, in West Berlin's American sector, a crowd gathered well before midnight. Many had piled out of nearby bars, carrying bottles of champagne and beer to celebrate. As the hour drew near, they taunted East German border guards with cries of "Tor Auf!" (Open the gate...
...reunification, treating with abandon the fact that this simple dream involved some nightmarish complexities. It was an easy wish to proclaim, since it did not seem that the gods would ever grant it. Now, amid the widespread Western joy over last week's freedom dance at the Brandenburg Gate, comes a more sobering realization: the postwar division of both Germany and Europe seems to be tumbling toward the ash heap of history faster than preparations are being made for whatever new order might arise in its stead...