Word: patios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story on the Riot Commission Report I was quoted as saying that "the Administration consists of nothing but a bunch of patio liberals." I call your attention to the fact that his phrase was used not by me but by Secretary Wirtz, who doubtless had in mind Ivy League university professors much more than the hard-nosed liberals of the Administration who have lately been so busy putting out fires in Washington. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Director, Joint Center for Urban Studies
...analysis would have been done by Negro social scientists," he said. But Moynihan prefers to emphasize the "scandalous" reaction of the President whose most extensive comment on the Report has been to recommend it to a luncheon audience of businessmen. "The administration consists of nothing but a bunch of patio liberals," Moynihan charged, including Vice-President Humphrey who has hinted that the administration was displeased to find no mention of its own legislative achievements in the Report
...Baniyas in Syria, one of the three fresh-water sources of the Jordan River, Syrian officers had a felicitous club in a two-story building set amid troughs of rushing water that cooled its patio. The Israeli army has already decided that the place should be renovated and turned into a tourist restaurant. It will be administered by a kibbutz from a nearby valley that was hit hard by Syrian artillery...
...hotel's great glory used to be its opulent indoor patio, a spacious central courtyard roofed over with glass and studded with palm trees and fountains that was the very symbol of la belle epoque. In the U.S., none rivaled the "Grand Central Court" of San Francisco's Palace Hotel, tiled in marble, lit by gas and roofed with crystal. But as modern cost-efficiency techniques have moved into hotelkeeping, much of the drama and elegance has moved out. Since space is the greatest architectural luxury of all, most new hotel lobbies are mean and cramped-areas designed...
...offered L.B.J., who says that after he leaves the presidency "there is no place I'd rather be than on the campus," was the deanship of a new school of public service to be located in the ancillary building. The lid also contains studies that ring a sunken patio; scholars will descend into the bookstack from above while the public climbs up from below to see the showcases chronicling the Johnsonian...