Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equipped with three tiny keyboards, stacked like the manuals of a pipe organ; vines of wires drooped down from their sockets. It looked like a kiddie's toy piano hooked up to a telephone switchboard...
...shelter I met the Danish ambassador to Peking, and another time a whole diplomatic dinner party." Of course, she admits, the hotel shelter was a pretty exclusive affair. No "ordinary Vietnamese," not even the hotel staff, ever showed up in it. As for the famed concrete-pipe shelters buried alongside roadways for the man in the street, they seemed to be "more a symbol of determination than places to scuttle to when the planes approached. 'There are toads in them,' a pretty girl said, making a face...
Often, he reveals himself as an archconservative who dislikes mass man and the whole modern era with its shoddy workmanship-one can almost see him in an English county seat decrying the servant problem and denouncing Labour amid outraged pipe smoke. He accurately describes himself as neo-Victorian in regard to sex; he speaks ill of homosexuality and masturbation, and proclaims that "without guilt, sex was meaningless." In fact, one sometimes wonders whether Mailer is not really an undercover agent of the old order, trying to undermine the Left from within...
...head of the conference table, Charles V. Hamilton looked over his notes from an earlier meeting. Lighting his pipe and leaning back in his chair, Hamilton began speaking to the study group. His voice was characteristically calm and deliberate as it sliced through the tension of the room...
...almost surrealistic ceremonies included nine speakers, champagne, and the crowning of a Miss Dunster Light Pipe. Sally Gates, a Drama Society participant, christened the light bridge in a ritual worthy of Bert Parks and the Miss America Pageant...