Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pint-sized DKW, and English Ford has turned its Zephyr and Zodiac lines into luxury cars. In a curious alliance of two state-controlled companies, France's Renault and Italy's Alfa Romeo plan joint dealerships which will be able to offer the customer everything from a spartan $1,100 Renault R4 to a $20,000 custom-built Alfa sports coup...
Oakland began with a spacious, 2,000-acre campus, a fat-free academic diet, and a spartan atmosphere of no dormitories, fraternities, sororities or organized athletics (TIME, Sept. 28, 1959). It had one major drawback: serving almost entirely as a commuter college in a low-income area, it was expected to demand Harvard-level performance from poorly prepared youngsters...
Cambridge's own Augean Stables (formerly called the University Theatre, and now the Harvard Square Theatre -- or HST for most, and non-U T for a few) have, at length, been thoroughly cleansed: what was once dirty, gilt, down-at-the-heels and 90c a shot is now sparkling, Spartan, chic...
...Requiem set last week-in the locker-room area under the grandstands at Randalls Island stadium-Gleason was finding out that moviemaking on location can be spartan. Against freezing temperatures, heat came from charcoal briquettes in braziers. Cast and crew were breathing contrails. Gleason sat, like a huge frostbitten gourd, in a camp chair labeled THE GREAT...
...neat office in Embracing Kindness Hall-a two-story Manchu dynasty palace in Peking's Forbidden City-have poured the blueprints and directives that marshaled China's millions into antlike armies to dig canals, mine coal and iron ore, and work the soil of 24,000 spartan people's communes. It has been clear for some time that the Great Leap was really a leap into disaster, but the extent of the failure is only now becoming plain. By fanatically stressing industry, Peking nearly wrecked China's agriculture-without accomplishing its industrial goals, either. At present...