Word: refurnished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...direction. Typical of the mood was the budget year of Mrs. Flora Binder, a Sherman Oaks, Calif., housewife; in her household, it seemed a good year to put on a new roof, to apply a new coat of paint to the house, to buy a garbage-disposal unit, to refurnish the living room and to replace the TV set with a newer model. Consumers have become so casual about outlays that used to call for a family council that Miss Sadie Zlotkin, a temporarily unemployed coat stitcher in West Los Angeles, when asked if she had made any major purchases...
...spend quite so much time buried in their books as modern Harvard lore sometimes suggests. He considers the student of today to be a man of literary and artistic sophistication, and therefore a man sensitive to the physical appearance of the building he inhabits. Mr. Stewart would like to refurnish many of the Lowell suites, improve the lighting in the junior common room, and particularly, make some changes in the House dining hall. Believing that a House should be a place "in which persons doing and hearing things can do and hear them," he would like to emphasize the House...