Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With nothing but its exterior shell unchanged, Boylston will be a unique synthesis of old and new at Harvard. The outside is in the style of 18th century architecture, the inside newer than Quincy House...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30--President Eisenhower gave steel union and company leaders a talking-to today, and then they agreed to get back to bargaining tomorrow toward settlement of the 78-day-old strike...
This is the play where the old patriarch Captain Shotover suddenly begins "weirdly chanting...
Shotover is a crazy old man of eighty-eight, drunken and self-confessedly futile, yet hedged about, like one of Yeats' Lear-like old men, with an almost sinister magnificence. His crews believe that "he sold himself to the devil in Zanzibar, and can divine water, spot gold, explode a cartridge in your pocket with a glance of his eye, and see the truth hidden in the heart of men." Made up with a white beard in a wretchedly unsuccessful attempt to look like G.B.S., "Mr. Evans' Captain," as A. E. Watts acutely notices in the Traveler, "is a cute...
...muttered Mortimer as he stripped his friendly Pollack copies from the wall. "Back to the old, old way of life," he remarked dully, bringing his pipe, polished loafers and Tchaikowsky collection to the fore. "The only way to preserve one's private identity today is to be a cold." Mort sucked on his pipe for solace...