Word: lebensraum
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Whatever his other phobias, Hughes did not suffer from claustrophobia. His bedroom was the smallest on the penthouse floor. It measured only 15 by 17 feet ("infinite riches in a little room"), considerably smaller than the usual "master" bedroom in a low-priced tract house. Even this meager lebensraum was further cramped by stacks of newspapers and magazines...
...atmosphere in American schools, particularly in the open classrooms the group visited in Brookline. "To have 200 kids in an open space, each of them studying something different, would be impossible in Israel. Israelis are always sticking their nose into each other's business." She laughs. "Perhaps we need Lebensraum...
...Macbeth's words, which will be spoken on this stage later in the season--"cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in." This is particularly unfortunate, because the play often requires a large number of characters to be on stage at the same time. Thus the players are denied the lebensraum that should ideally be available to them, and they often cannot help getting in each other...
...Lebensraum could be the political cry of the street hips. When he was in New York, Morea and his Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers literally battled the police for control of the Lower East Side. This summer he moved to Boston, where the street hip community has been engaged in a hassle over sleeping rights on the Boston Common. After receiving many complaints from Charles St. merchants and residents, White slapped a curfew on the Common. Night after night, there were dozens of arrests. Some nights, there was violence. One of those nights, Morea got embroiled in a massive street...
...quite a chuckle out of your use of German in your treatise on sculpture [Dec. 11]. Did you mean Lebensraum (room or space to live in), or Liebesraum (room to love in)? The implication of the combination was delightful, Miller's Mary: Walking Sequence-beautiful...