Word: silver
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Died. Elisabeth May Craig, 86, Washington correspondent for the Guy Gannett newspaper chain of Maine from 1926 to 1965; after a long illness; in Silver Spring, Md. Craig marched in a suffragette parade at Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, and later vigorously protested her exclusion from all-male press gatherings in Washington. She earned colleagues' respect for her "dodge-proof questions and barbed repartee at the press conferences of five Presidents. When F.D.R. once lamely admitted, "That wasn't much of an answer, was it?" Craig shot back, "No." Her hair in a bun under one of dozens...
...here is Leonard Holmberg, with a problem. Holmberg, a silver-haired man with long sideburns who is the Summer School's registrar, has come into Crook's Holyoke Center office just after Crooks himself has gotten there: Crooks has barely had time to glance approvingly at the rave review in the morning Herald of the previous night's concert...
Grayhaired Doxiadis was dapper, shrewd and brisk-a silver fox of a man who was equally at home designing mud-brick houses for Zambian peasants or diagramming his thoughts (with multicolored felt-tip pens) for Western intellectuals. He was born in 1913 of Greek parents in Bulgaria, was bred and educated in Athens, and earned a graduate degree in Berlin. His talent shone early: at 23 he became Athens' top town planner; at 25 he was chief of regional planning for all Greece. Then came World War II (Doxiadis was a Resistance hero) and after...
These ideas were well to the left of the 18th century's mercantilist doctrine, which held that trade should be strictly regulated in order to pile up gold and silver in national treasuries. The ideas also ran counter to the strong feelings among upper-level society that "opulence" for the "lower ranks" would be very dangerous. Smith's revolutionary concepts took some time to catch on. But The Wealth of Nations was read by all the leading intellects of the time and praised by many, including Smith's friends David Hume and Edmund Burke. By the early 19th century, Smith...
...obscure motel, imagining a priceless array of artifacts. In the morning, a flea market of Victoriana awaits him in a parking lot below. Each objet d'art has been produced by his richly informed subconscious. Naturally there are the classic ottomans and clawfoot sofas, the glut of silver tea sets and bridal breakfast services. But there are also treasures from the velvet underground: choice items of bondage, plush Sadean literature, punishment costumes featuring removable posterior panels. It is all only a dream, of course. But in a way, Moore reminds us, so were the Victorians, and their residue remains...