Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Near another church, a hard-faced Palestinian officer pointed his leather swagger stick at a blood-spattered wall near an abandoned sandbagged bunker. "From now on," he said, "there will be no more forgiving. The rightists used to say that Lebanon would be a graveyard for the Palestinians. Now it's a graveyard for them...
...What does it cost to go here, Jimmy?" they asked as we strolled around the Yard. "How smart d'ya have to be?" They were my guests now, and I was almost embarrassed as we wound through the campus toward Quincy House, looking through windows at undergraduates sprawled on leather couches set against "real" oak panneling hung with oil portraits...
Richard B. Freeman, professor of Economics, found five minutes and a seat for me in between phone calls in a large closet of an office cluttered with computer print-outs and color travel posters. Freeman is much less orthodox-looking than either Fisher or George McAlister, in leather jacket, boots and jeans. But hetalks much faster than either of them, does not look at you or pause to reflect, and does not shed any tears over the angst of senior year at Harvard College. His pessimism is much more detached. Americans are overeducated, he says, and although Harvard students always...
Elane Coyne Galleries (Contemporary Crafts), 45 Bromfield Street, Boston: "Modern Trends in Leatherwork," including leather dinette sets, wide-screen TVs, and radar units...
Lindsay's prose, by comparison, seems set down by the numbers: "Mayor James Carr sat heavily in his big leather chair behind his littered desk in the handsome office in downtown San Marco." If Buckley has written Frank Merriwell Joins the CIA, Lindsay's lumbering parable could be subtitled Seven Years in May. The time is the not too distant future. Runaway unemployment and racial strife have brought about two years of martial law in America. Before Congress is a "Special Powers" bill that will eliminate virtually all civil liberties. "There may be," a Justice Department official concedes...