Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always took them to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then to plays and concerts when they got older," says Co-Master Kiely. "The children also loved the Indian exhibit and the glass flowers at the Peabody Museum...
...Glass designer Karen R. Hastings, the daughter of North House Master J. Woodland Hastings, sang in the North House Opera while in high school. She says that being a master's child let her benefit from Harvard life, even though she was never a student here. "I was exposed to a broader world at a younger age," she says. "A lot of interesting people were always coming to talk...
...world now is a "tessellated pavement without cement." He was quoting something Edmund Burke said about Charles Townshend, a brilliant but erratic 18th century British statesman. Not bad, but somewhat mandarin. The audience had to remember, or look up, tessellation, which is a mosaic of small pieces of marble, glass or tile. This age, thinks Lord Thomas, is a mosaic of fragments, with nothing to hold them together. Is it an age of brilliant incoherence? Yes. It is also an age of incoherent stupidity...
...feedback effect on the actor. Smilers actually feel happier; debaters become enamored of their own arguments; a good salesman sells himself first. You become what you pretend to be. We can pretend to be unselfish and connected to the earth. We can pretend that 30- ft.-long, black-tinted-glass, air-conditioned limos are unfashionable because we know that real men don't need air conditioning. We can pretend that we believe it is wrong to loot the earth for the benefit of a single generation of a single species. We can pretend to care about our children's world...
Despite occasional gunfire, the truce held last week, allowing a semblance of normality to return to Beirut. Its residents have watched cease-fires come and go, but one promising tip-off suggests this one will last for a while. The price of plate glass for replacing the thousands of windowpanes shattered by gunfire and artillery barrages quadrupled within hours...