Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: It is disillusioning, but the men's rest-room in the stacks of Harvard's Widener Library, which is nearly perfectly limited to Harvard students and officers, contains graffiti as exclusively gross as could be found in bathrooms anywhere...
...Sir: It's taken me years to get my wife to consent to fly with me-which she was about to do at the end of this month...
...Sir: Your story on R. L. Polk & Co. [Nov. 8] provided an unusually concise and clear picture of the many activities of our organization...
...Sir: I was interested in your "Handwriting on the Wall" article [Nov. 15]. I did some workshops at the University of Cincinnati last summer and with a special camera took over 100 pictures of university graffiti on toilet-room walls...
...Sir: I agree that the graffito is a "sensitive barometer of change in popular preoccupations" and that for some adults, especially the introverted, it may be the only satisfying creative outlet. The crucial factor in graffiti interpretation is the tone. The flippancy is often mere camouflage for metaphysical anguish...