Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very small and insignificant soul break from a creed, which, if it does nothing else, at least proclaims consistently and vehemently and unwaveringly that it alone possess the one complete truth in the universe? I am torn." Montaigne's remark that "We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish out real liberty and out principal retreat and solitude" is good advice...
Novelist Herbert Gold, 39, has as cruel an eye for human foibles as Hieronymus Bosch, but his heart is awash with love of the world. At his best, this has made him a kind of romantic poet turned pitchman for the seamy side of life. Miraculously blending hip talk, shop talk, tough talk and the rumpled jargon of half-educated America, Gold often makes fun of the grotesques-con men, carnival barkers, sleazy hotel managers-who are his favorite characters. But he never treats them as victims of society. Their small limbo worlds take on the likeness of the great...
...walked away with top marks. Posted to London in 1935, and then reassigned to the U.S. as minister counselor and ambassador, Pearson quickly built up the best Washington contacts in the whole foreign diplomatic corps. A close set of intimates gathered nights around the Pearson piano, talking shop, singing and sipping rye. "We envied his ability to keep a foot in our embassy as well as in the State Department," recalls a British contemporary. "We naturally told him all, and so did the Americans...
From the Mountain. After that first, promising nighttime test, Keyes and his associates decided to try their diode light at longer range. They set up shop on the top of Mount Wachusett, a modest peak (alt. 2,006 ft.) 34 miles from Lincoln Lab. The first long-distance experiments were not successful, mostly because of hastily assembled equipment. After many months of work, an improved transmitter pointed at Lincoln Laboratory from Mount Wachusett. The tiny gallium arsenide diode, only 0.01 in. in diameter, was placed precisely at the focus of a 5-in. reflecting telescope that concentrated its infra...
...most of the 160,000 students in the Defense Department's overseas dependents' schools (which together form a system almost as big as Houston's) were insulated from the cultures surrounding them. In most American garrisons, servicemen and their families live in self-contained housing projects, shop at base stores, attend base movies and churches, scarcely taste the speech and culture of the unfamiliar country beyond the guardposts. In 1960, of the 30,000 pupils who were then enrolled in Air Force schools in Europe, only 980 were taking foreign-language courses...