Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspiciously like another era, Tired but reserved. A comfortable air of decay. A few weeds here and there. Easy going and a pace that's so slow there almost isn't any pace at all. The posed time table suggests a train in about ten minutes. Would-be passengers gather. A worker easily, effortlessly, lackadaisically sweeps out the station. A bell rings somewhere. At the grade crossing alongside the station the attendant comes out of his little house and brings down the gates, chatting for a moment with a passerby holding up traffic in expectation of the train. The high...
...election was the last time that that particular ethnic group could gather to much power, he said, adding once Kennedy was elected it was important that he not appear to be based toward Catholics...
...when "that Depression look" came back it brought with it a new depression. Stavisky is a movie for people who are sincerely worried about how to spend the time that remains between tomorrow morning and Armageddon; not for those, like the circle of young men and women who gather around Trotsky, who take life seriously and don't have to worry about boredom...
...seems that large groups of women representing a fair cross-section of Radcliffe that gather regularly for the sole purpose of being together are doomed to disintegration, as though some sex-linked centrifugal force at the core must hurl them apart. The first meeting of the Eliot House women's group last year blistered with hostility. Some women argued that the group should not meet during dinner because men in the house objected. The group soon degenerated into a couple of milk and cookie get-togethers and then faded away...
...most familiar legs of the tour-Damascus and Aswan-arrivals and departures have by now become routine. In Jerusalem, on the other hand, Kissinger delights in the flock of excited American tourists who gather in the King David Hotel lobby to applaud and snap his picture. He has become such an attraction there that before the latest shuttle, the hotel's management wrote a pleading letter asking him not to carry out "an act of aggression against the King David" by switching to the newer Jerusalem Hilton. With enough aggression to deal with already, Kissinger acceded...