Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Bell Reddick's Ten Walking Tours of Cambridge dismisses the building at 14 Plympton Street in about half a sentence, giving short shrift to its "neo-Georgian" design, and saying that Lampy's castle "puts to shame the Crimson Building." Harvard's semi-official book on it own architecture, Education, Bricks, and Mortar, doesn't mention the building at all, Newspaper buildings by and large are rough, functional structures, which serve a practical daily purpose and expedite the production of their publications. Few of them win architecture awards, and none of them can approach in grandeur the Lampoon...
...successor, Pierre Messmer, a colorless veteran of De Gaulle's Cabinets, made his debut in the Pompidou government in a saccharine and self-serving interview on the government TV network that left many Frenchmen with what Le Monde sadly described as a feeling "of embarrassment, almost of shame...
...children, Britons have responded with a torrent of outrage directed at the former distributor of the drug, giant Distillers Co. Ltd. More important, perhaps, the outcry appears to have forced a widespread public examination of the outdated laws and traditions that allowed what the Sunday Times called a "national shame" to go so long unnoticed and unredressed...
...possible. Last week, as a result, Britain's NATO partners offered Mintoff an additional $2,000,000 one-time increase. At week's end, the Prime Minister had not made up his mind whether to accept the offer. His latest ploy was a rather dramatic attempt to shame NATO into upping the ante. He said that Malta would refuse all payments under the present contract but would magnanimously let the British remain, free of charge. That, at least, was a new scene in an all too familiar script...
...window stood at 1° above zero, and bitter winds howled in off Lake Michigan. Bundled up in parkas and woolen face masks, a platoon of teachers stood shoulder to shoulder on the sidewalk and honked bicycle horns at anyone who pushed through their picket lines. "Scab! Scab!" and "Shame!" they shouted. "Don't go in! There aren't any children in there!" The few teachers who did venture in found the building virtually empty-and chilling; custodians honored picket lines by refusing to provide more than 55° of heat. The teachers sat at children...