Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time passes, all politicians (and generals) come to seem less important; what lasts is art. "Literature," said Ezra Pound, "is news that stays news." Many Americans can remember that Calvin Coolidge was the inconsequential President when Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, but as we look back, the political powers keep fading. What does anyone know about the petty princelings who ruled Germany in the time of Bach except that they were not very kind to Bach? What does anyone know about the Pope who built the Sistine Chapel except that he hired Michelangelo to paint the ceiling? What does...
...clear. To start with, U.S. properties are going for unprecedentedly low prices because of the fall of the dollar. The U.S. currency has plunged some 40% in value during the past two years against such major foreign currencies as the Japanese yen, the West German mark and the British pound. The result is that while prices of real estate and commercial properties may seem high to most Americans, everything with a dollar-denominated price tag looks like a tremendous steal to holders of other, stronger currencies...
...Bender has little interest with college towns, which are ultimately dismissed as the 99-pound-weaklings of urban America. The heart of the book, rather, is a discussion of the three major schools in New York--the elite Columbia (founded in 1754 as Kings College), the alternative New York University (founded in 1831), and the public City College (founded in 1866)--and how each tried to balance the academy against the unavoidable democratic influences of the city around...
Dowling, who is handling all contributions, said the fund's primary purpose is to provide financial support for Fogarty during the months he will not receive pay. A benefit dance to be held at the Law School's Pound Hall in early October has also been scheduled, Dowling said...
...study 31 years later by his successor, John Quincy Adams, was similarly unpersuasive. But in 1866, Congress, charged by the Constitution with establishing the nation's weights and measures, declared the metric system valid for "contracts, dealings or court proceedings," and in 1893 officially defined the foot, pound and inch in metric equivalents...