Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First problem at the foot of the Capitol. Broken water main had left a puddle that a transit bus hit just as Jones came along. He was sprayed. quit now and take a cab, he asked himself, or press on? Keep going, he decided. Turn on to Pennsylvania Avenue. Lovely morning. Remembering back to the Inauguration Day of Jan. 20, 1969. As an aide to L.B.J., he had ridden up the avenue in the limousine with Johnson and Nixon in back, he and Ev Dirksen on the jump seats. Ah, how life changes. Pump some more. Middle lane is crowded...
...tourists all lined up to visit the White House. "Honk, honk," went a car. "Hey," yelled an occupant, "he's the Congressman from Tulsa!" Well, I'll be darned-a voter, thought Jones, waving back with a grin. He whizzed down the last block of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. Checked his watch. Seventeen minutes for the trip...
...landscapes were invented by painters and carry their names. The stone farmhouse on a lavender Proveçnal hill proclaims Cézanne; the shuttered hotel room with a blue glimpse of sea beyond a curlicued balcony announces Matisse. On a less exalted level, can one drive through rural Pennsylvania and not think of Andrew Wyeth? It happens in California too, through the work of Richard Diebenkorn...
...program, but do not normally grant degrees in the field. The second type, which the Radcliffe committee seems to have in mind, are schools which have recently inaugurated programs leading to a bachelor's degree in women's studies. Such programs are now in operation at the University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, UMass-Amherst, and, as of a few weeks ago, Barnard College...
...believe they did. There was widespread, through not unanimous, support on campus for U.S. military involvement in Korea, even among men who considered themselves liberals and who later opposed the U.S. role in Vietnam. Robert S. Harding '52, now a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist, voted for former president Dwight D. Eisenhower while Freedman was snaking through Cambridge on a sound truck campaigning for former Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-Ill.). Harding, who says he has subsequently "done a complete turnaround," perceived the mood then as "one of threat from the outside. Czechoslovakia had been overthrown a few years earlier...