Word: nooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Graduate students grade papers and exams, and often there are no sections, so the professor can be totally oblivious to the class around him. He also can lecture practically off the top of his head, sticking to material that relates to his own carefully-fashioned nook of knowledge...
January snow drifts down onto Long Nook beach. A piercing cold wind off the Atlantic knifes through even heavy overcoats and thick boots. Within minutes, the cold becomes unbearable. It is time to climb back up the sand dunes, which tower fifty feet above, to the Ford station wagon, now alone in the parking...
...Every Nook. Indeed, it is space-at a budget price-that most attracts members of the new storefront community. Though the warehouse-like interiors with 14-ft. ceilings often cost $60 per month to heat, the rent averages only $150, half that charged for Chicago apartments of similar size. Tenants use every nook and cranny, partitioning off sleeping berths, closets and workshops with hanging plants or plywood. One innovative interior decorator, who moved into a former ice cream parlor, now serves cocktails instead of sarsaparilla from behind the old soda fountain...
Pusey adapted well to the Harvard of the fifties, and he must be given credit (or blame) for Harvard's golden age of expansion. James Byrant Conant set up General Education, but Nathan Pusey implemented it, and brought it to every corner of every geographical nook and cranny in the United States...
...Auden recently had $117 stolen from him. Sighed he: "Ironically, I had to leave New York and come to Oxford to get robbed." After his comments kicked up a transatlantic furor, Auden, anxious to regain some measure of privacy, hastened to add, "I have a nice little nook in college, so why should I complain...