Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courtyard is the center of the House," said Carlhain, and it is hard to disagree. But what poses for courtyard in Mather House is a dead space, a savannah so criss-crossed with mammoth concrete walks that the oddly shaped patches of grass which remain to intrude might well be the gravesites of tired isosceles triangles. The lack of large or central trees was also planned: "I wanted the students to be able to play frisbee...
...then that I found the subtitle of my book. Nasser symbolized a "search for dignity" throughout the Asian-African world. He emerged from the grass roots, from the silt of the Nile Valley. He was determined to make his people feel proud to be Egyptians instead of posing as carbon copies of Frenchmen or anyone else...
...hippies began to gather in a Houston schoolyard last week after an early morning rain. They spread their blankets and ponchos on the wet grass and talked quietly among themselves. Then a police paddy wagon and a pickup truck pulled up and the cops leaped out. There were yells-"Let's get the freaks!"-and the police proceeded to beat the young people mercilessly. But the confrontation's results were recorded on a score card instead of a police blotter or hospital admission form. They were playing softball...
...prefer politicians with a down-home touch. Tage Erlander, a big, shambling, avuncular sort, who retired as Prime Minister in 1969 after 23 years on the job, was perfectly typecast. But Erlander's hand-picked successor-Olof Palme, 43, a sophisticated aristocrat-was a far cry from that grass-roots stereotype. "Palme doesn't even look like a Swede," says one of his friends. "He's not tall, not blond. He's smart and he shows it. Will this go down with the Swedes? Will they take this international character, not the provincial Swedish politician...
...Grass is Greener