Word: playground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about him. His father, off in Spain, is never seen. His sister drops out of sight and becomes a fashion model who plays cozy with the Germans while looking for a chance to make her escape. Michel, the boy, lives with his mother and grandmother, and is subjected to playground and schoolroom humiliations because he is a Jew. His mother, trying to remain inconspicuous, changes the family name and shuttles from one apartment to another. But there is no way to avoid the pogrom except to flee the country. She sends Michel ahead, joins him later with her mother...
Harvard has indicated that it plans to build dormitories for married students and faculty on what is now the Agassiz neighborhood playground and several houses...
Moses's name appeared constantly in the press, but the news media were generally content to echo his press releases and confine themselves to orgies of adulation every time Moses cut the ribbon for a bridge or a playground. Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker is only the second book-length study of Robert Moses to be published--but it almost singlehandedly makes up for this lack of biographical information about a man whom Lewis Mumford called the greatest influence on American cities in this century...
...that great sports mecca of the East, Princeton University, there exists a magical playground for all of the student sports enthusiasts to romp in--Jadwin Gymnasium. This bastion of athletic endeavors, complete with its multitudinous underground squash and handball courts, wrestling rooms, weight rooms and soccer fields represents one of the greatest excesses ever perpetrated on the sport world...
Kissinger himself appears to work best when, rather like a playground basketball superstar, he can go one-on-one with a leader who shares his own sense of geopolitical realities. "He always looks for the guy who can deliver," says an aide who has sat in on many of Kissinger's negotiating sessions...