Word: oxfords
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...steps of granite. Grass defines the Yard and the Quad, and moss creeps through the cracks of the sidewalk. Asphalt covers all the streets, and white-washed something-or-other coats William James. But throughout, there is a sense of brick. It is Harvard's theme, perhaps lifted from Oxford or Cambridge, and made into further kitsch by scores of Ivy-admiring, mid-western schools. This continuity--not of style or design, but of material--conveys a sense of uniformity that is comforting. But this uniformity is ultimately false and imposed by men in the vain hope of controlling, taming...
MacMillan, a Rhodes Scholar, will spend thenext two years at Oxford University studyingenvironmental change and management. She plans topursue a career in environmental policy
...dangerous. Foolish, because no sane man is going to make that choice today even if he had the chance. A hundred years ago, yes, but not in 1956. And dangerous, because the idea can further inflame those few people who might still believe such a situation possible. WILLIAM FAULKNER Oxford, Miss...
After graduating summa cum laude in English, Updike studied at the Rushkin School of Fine Arts in Oxford, England on a Knox Fellowship...
...Failing Health With billion-dollar losses at Oxford, it's hard times for managed health care. And the government may be forced...