Word: piers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty soon you realize that this straight-faced world is slightly magic around the edges. Evil is a man in a striped suit and derby hat who tries to destroy dreams. He is a dictatorial mayor and selfish capitalist and doesn't believe that Sandcastle Pier is a boat. Of course it is. We registered it under the laws of the new country of Liberama. And it makes so many people happy that...
...about (into the middle of traffic or otherwise) with a perfect, beautiful composure. He would have loved to have been a sailor, but he gets seasick all the time, so he has to make do without actual water. But everything else is the same. In his home on the pier, a boardwalk fun house tilted 45 degrees, he sleeps in a hammock, serves coffee to plump lady guests, catches them tactfully by the knees when they slide off their tilted chairs, and paces the floor (with some difficulty on the uphill and a kind of run downhill...
From the platoons of perambulators marshaled on Llandudno's pier last week, it looked as if a baby contest were in full swing. In fact, the prams' owners were visiting the wind-whipped Welsh resort for the Liberal Party's annual conference, its biggest and most closely watched gathering since the war. Though it has been fashionable in Britain to dismiss the Liberals themselves as political babes-in-arms, last week's conference showed that the resurgent party not only appeals powerfully to the young-hence the youthful parents with their prams-but that...
Less Self. Of the 1,456 delegates packed into the pier pavilion, the great majority come from Britain's "new middle class," an expanding tier that reaches from skilled workers to professional and managerial classes. It is this segment of society that has been hardest hit by the Conservative government's white-collar wage restraints-the "pay pause"-while staunchly resisting the Labor Party's archaic doctrines and chronic schisms. Though they have made dramatic gains in by-elections during the past year, the Liberals have been dismissed as a party of protest that is still...
...focus worshipers' attention on a central event. The newest and perhaps most striking round church in the U.S.. the Church of the Priory of St. Mary and St. Louis, was consecrated this month near St. Louis. Designed by Gyo Obata, with engineering consultation from Italy's Pier Luigi Nervi, the church is a confection of thin concrete shells resembling nuns' coifs. tiered like a giant pudding mold. On top of the graceful central lantern is the slenderest of crosses. Says Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis: "It is an outstanding demonstration of the ingenuity...