Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HIGHER STATE SUPPORT FOR THE ELDERLY: In our society, the level is completely inadequate. But the assumption is that by moving their incomes up a grand or so, you can make a big splash. I wonder about that because it's a qualitative more than a quantitative problem. The income supplement is never going to be enough if people are estranged from society. But if you have children to take care of you, friends, a nice community, it's a winner...
Finally for those in a mellower mood,Richie Havens will be at Paul's Mall from October 16-19. Havens hasn't deen heard from too much after his big splash at Woodstock, it might be worth it to check out what's in Richie's mixed bag this week...
...janitor, he decided, should have his own closet, not just an impersonal clothes hook. When it came to the hospital rooms, Aalto put himself in the place of the patients. The result: designs for windows that would admit fresh air but not drafts, wash basins that would not splash, and chairs of resilient wood so that convalescents would not touch cold steel frames...
...stood at the ralling there was transmitted to his bones the awesome unalterable rhythm of the ocean. A while later the Roosevelt passed an incoming vessel packed to the railings with immigrants. Father watched the prow of the scaly broad-beamed vessel splash in the sea. Her decks were packed with people. Thousands of male heads in derbies. Thousands of female heads covered with shawls. It was a rag ship with a million dark eyes staring at him. Father, a normally resolute person, suddenly floundered in his soul. A weird despair seized him. The wind came...
...they seem. In fact, Dukakis has turned out to be very much like Frank Sargent, only worse, Sure he takes the subway to work instead of a limousine, eats sand-wiches in the office instead of big banquets, and hired a bright young staff. And he made a big splash on the surface with these gestures when he first took over. But, to date, he has not acted any differently than Sargent would have when faced with matters of substance. In fact, he has often goofed in ways Sargent never would have thought of. His basic problem, aside from...