Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Currier Houses, to be used by the House members and their guests. This was the original intent of the planners, and donors contributed money with this purpose in mind. In this respect, the facility will serve the same function for residents of these Houses as the Adams House pool does for Adams residents or the Dunster squash courts do for Dunster residents. The sole difference is that, instead of building a basketball court in South House, squash courts in North, and a tennis court in Currier, the separate facilities have been consolidated and placed in a separate building...
...Lessing's strength. As interested as she has become in grand designs or configurations of enormous powers, she does not forget the here and now. She will still pause for moments of liquid beauty, stop to portray a sliver of the moon reflected in a dusty courtyard pool in Morocco. Shikasta invites argument. There is something unsatisfying about a vision of history that suggests humans could not, after all, help making the messes they have, that their blunders were all ordained by a small tic in the cosmos. But belief in Lessing's theory is not required...
...Goodman; 58. Tony Conigliaro; 59. Al Kaline; 60. .320; 61. Gil MacDougald; 62. Earl Averill; 63. rented Chevrolet; 64. Jack Hamilton; 65. Paul Blair; 66. hurt hand while dunking basketball; 67. fear of flying; 68. pulled a hamstring playing hoop; 69. reserve clause litigation; 70. went down a swimming pool slide arm-first; 71. Dune buggy accident; 72. car accident; 73. airplane crash; 74. gunshot wounds as a result of duel in native P.R.; 75. asphyxiation; 76. leukemia; 77. knife wounds; 78. mysteriously disappeared after being let off train just before Niagara Falls bridge--body found in river days later...
...return flight from the Azores meeting I said to the press pool on Air Force One that Soviet conduct on the subcontinent was not compatible with the mutual restraint required by genuine coexistence. If it continued, we would have to re-evaluate our entire relationship...
...beach, and having to throw towels ahead of him to protect his feet from the burning sand; a woman who insists on making love precisely to the rhythm of Ravel's Bolero; a lengthy mix-up involving dentistry, painkillers, the telephone, a telescope, some naked ladies, a swimming pool, a steep hillside and the police. It is really quite indescribable -but gorgeously orchestrated...