Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frommer ground rules are spartan. Though $5 a day covers a room and three meals, exclusive of transportation costs, a frugal tourist is reminded: 1) "Never ask for a private bath with your hotel room. Few Europeans regard a bath or shower as a daily necessity." 2) "Try filling up on two or three continental breakfasts in place of eggs and bacon." 3) "Never patronize a restaurant that doesn't display a menu in its window." 4) "Don't leap to find a hotel. Check your bags at the airport or train station while...
...Cairo and above the Bosporus in Istanbul, at the foot of the Elburz Mountains in Teheran. All of the hotels glisten and glitter, with an architecture that ranges from international slab to a crosshatched radio-cabinet style. They lean heavily on the anonymity of modernism, and display a spartan opulence designed as much to save the hotel money as to attract the clients. In countries where there is no previous standard of hotel excellence, Hiltons are oases; in such old cities as Rome, London or Paris, they are apt to seem a little off-key and alien...
...blacker than Old Style and takes slightly more space (36 characters to a line instead of 40). To complement the new body type, we have changed the type used for headlines and captions. Picture captions, for example, were previously in Old Style and will now be in Spartan Medium. As in the past, some special text pieces, notably those we call "boxes," will frequently be printed in type that varies slightly from the body of the magazine when a variation seems appropriate...
...network's cameras had a look at almost everything in the 65-acre Kremlin compound, from the old Cathedral of the Archangel to the new glass-fagaded Soviet Palace of Congresses. There were glances at the Spartan rooms of Lenin, the spare embellishments of Stalin's new grave, and the fantastic Great Hall of St. George, with its huge chandeliers of what look like bunches of gold bananas...
...Harvard most tutors spend only eight to ten hours a week in tutorials, fewer if they are engaged in research. For an Oxford don to get his own work done, he has to lead a fairly Spartan life: there are so many college duties making demands on his spare time that he has little time to seek out undergraduates informally...