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...impossible to adaquately convey the horror I felt when I walked into the dining room in building 25 for the first time that Wednesday. Forty-five children were seated around linoleum-topped tables waiting for one of the attendants to come by and feed them. They were moaning and screaming, rocking back and forth, stinking of urine and feces and I was vaguely nauseous, overwhelmed by the desire to run away. My first and only thought at that time was, "My God! These things can't be human...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: For a Friend in the Snakepit | 10/5/1973 | See Source »

...wasn't much to look at: linoleum on the floors, a small waiting room with metal folding chairs, a jukebox, the bedrooms out back. But to the townspeople of La Grange (pop. 3,000), as well as to farmhands and college students in the surrounding East Texas counties, Edna's Fashionable Ranch and Boarding House, known as "the Chicken Ranch," was as cherished as any monument, and far more functional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: House on the Range | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

Says Pat Platto, owner of a linoleum company: "In this political system, a President has to be amoral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: How Main Street Views Watergate | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...teaching fellow of the philosopher's remark, that "one picture is worth a thousand words." He must have seen the truth in my observation because for a few minutes he did not say anything at all, and it was only after the athletes started tapping their cleats on the linoleum and burping that he said "class dismissed" and left the room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Survival of the Species | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...overwhelmed by a terrible sense of wrongness, of jarring inconsistency. There was that surging, powerful feeling in the hall, and now, stranded on the linoleum under the battery of fluorescent kitchen lights, there is this terrible sense of isolation, of walls closing in, of being trapped. It doesn't compute. Something in her calculations is wrong. She stands there, with a sense of being too late, passed by, stuck-but she doesn't burst into tears. The days of weeping are over. In spite of the desolation she feels, she knows that she is not alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: How Women's Lib Looks to the Not-So-Mad Housewife | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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