Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lovingly sanitized. Don't bother looking for a speck of dirt or any antique grime cherished from the old Bick era. A dark blue rug covers the ungodly Bick tile, and a double set of glass doors throws up a space-lock between the dining room and the filthy sidewalk ecology outside. The fancy Shakespearean name and the fleur-de-lis table mats won't fool too many patrons: this place is about as Elizabethan as Dayton, Ohio...
...Emil Mosbacher Jr. * Said Martha to an interviewer last September: "The academic society is responsible for all troubles in this country. They don't know what's going on. They don't have a right to talk. It makes me sick at my stomach. They're a bunch of sidewalk diplomats that don't know the score...
...book, The Greening of America (currently churning off the Random House presses at a rate of 15,000 a week), that the machinery of Corporate America is destroying itself and that we should all await with him the inevitable emergence-like grass through the cracks in the sidewalk-of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music, a Consciousness III. Says the Times: "Youth culture has gotten its very own Norman Vincent Peale." They were not referring to William Sloan Collin, Yale's famous Radical Chaplain...
...number of people stopped in front of Raymond's to read the leaflets and discuss the protest, but no one was visibly dissuaded from entering the store. At one point the store manager came out and reminded the group to keep the protest on the sidewalk and off thestore's property. The picketers complied...
...vision to perceive paradise but unable to get his eyes off his own private hells. At his best, Lowry was sporadically brilliant, but reading him is too often like watching a man who has exceeded his capacity try to get home without stepping on the cracks in the sidewalk. R.Z. Sheppard