Word: restroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newer," larger and larger, until the parts drop off. Newman's vital idea, the spiritual necessity of a center, has failed. The university has become a crossroads, not a community. And even as a crossroads, Mr. Barzun predicts, it will soon have no higher function than a traveler's restroom. THOMAS GEOGHEGAN
...university, which Castro has always courted, has seen a rise in dissent. Last summer, 40 professors, students and minor party officials at the University of Havana were arrested for disagreeing with party policy. The rank-and-file Cubans are much subtler in their opposition. Some scribble graffiti on restroom walls ("Down With Russian Imperialism," "Fidel, Traitor"). Others indulge in a little spur-of-the-moment sabotage. Sailors or railroad men urinate in bulk sugar; a farmhand may toss a wrench into a sugar-cane harvester...
STEPHANIE: Oh, that reminds me. Let's go check out the restroom. The stuff in there is WONDERFUL...
...Commission does not advise "cutting off every nickel cold, leaving widows and children," he said. However, it would prevent another grant like that of the Federal Aviation Agency, which provided $2,180,000 for a jet airport in Jackson, Miss., without questioning the plan for separate eating and restroom facilities...
...loaded with banal aggression, The Beat Generation in the U.S. and the "Teddy-bards" in Britain have put poetry in the news for the first time since the '20s. ("The Beats have taken poetry out of the academic study," says one critic, "and put it in the subway restroom.") And the success of the uncouth has encouraged the couth, who are slowly but inevitably developing a new poetic tone, a tone less clever than Auden, more direct than Eliot, more worldly and less personal than Thomas, a conversational but careful tone in which important things can be simply said...