Word: pillar
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...Ireland, France, Italy, Vietnam, Czechoslavakia, Latin America, Israel and Austin, Texas. With its efficient, business-like staff and broad selection of prepackaged snacks, this newsstand caters to today's city mover and shaker. Steeped in tradition, Out of Town retains pride in its long history with a commemorative stone pillar outside its primary entrance, which pays homage to the founder of the island and the common paper deliverer. Tourists may purchase a Harvard postcard for 35 cents...
...France, Italy, Vietnam, Czechoslavakia, Latin America, Israel and Austin, Texas. With its efficient, business-like staff and broad selection of pre-packaged snacks, this newsstand caters to today's city mover and shaker. Steeped in tradition, Out of Town retains pride in its long history with a commemorative stone pillar outside its primary entrance, which pays homage to the founder of the island and the common paper deliverer. Tourists may purchase a Harvard postcard for 35 cents...
...elitist" selections of those other book honors. Of the four winners announced last week, two were selected by Imus and two by listeners, who voted for their favorites online. Imus' top pick was Freedomland by novelist Richard Price, who will take home $100,000. The other three winners (Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch, King of the World by David Remnick and My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki) were each awarded $50,000, a pile of loot five times as great as that pocketed by the winner of that other prize. Elitism costs...
...fact, DHO's stage offerred a radical new take on Voltaire's classic story. Roundly showing that this is not necessarily the best of all possible worlds, the stage broke twice. I did not notice the first time the stage broke (apparently a supporting pillar cracked), so clearly, the stage's problems did not detract from what was happening on stage. Sometime during the second act there was another crashing sound (this time I noticed it) and the actors quickly rearranged some of the blocks to mask whatever harm had been done to it. The cast certainly believed that...
...PILLAR OF FIRE: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1963-65 Taylor Branch's second installment of his trilogy on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. covers only three years, but they were complex and fateful times. Lyndon Johnson ascended to the White House and rammed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a triumph for King. But his doctrine of nonviolence was being challenged by Malcolm X, and a war in Southeast Asia escalated. Branch's book is an eerie chronicle of deaths foretold...