Word: sprawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haunted by visions of people he has cheated in his life. At times they sprawl all over his room, tormenting him so much he spills his soup and screams in agony. In the afternoon, when he is feeling almost amiable, he tosses some bread crumbs to a sickly pigeon. He runs out of crumbs, but the pigeon continues to stare at him with a baleful red eye. ''If I look at it long enough it will go away,'' the old man thinks. The pigeon pecks at his shoe. "Go away," the old man cries, kicking...
...thinking might be broader than that. Bell writes in The End of Ideology, "But where the problems are, as Karl Popper put it, of 'piecemeal technology,' of the prosaic, yet necessary questions, of school costs, municipal services, the urban sprawl, and the like, bravura radicalism simply becomes a hollow shell." And Schlesinger in New Statesman writes "Apart from civil rights, the contribution of the utopian Left to the discussion of domestic issues has been unimpressive...
...Senate. Half a dozen Congressmen had their children with them on the floor, and one little boy proudly raised his right hand along with his father. In the Senate, Republicans had at least one consolation for their loss of three places in the last elections: their 33 members could sprawl comfortably in their seats while the 67 desks...
...ought to be shot on sight, but the whole country is having one. A hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz and all over the U.S. there is a great reverberate twang. Guitars and banjos akimbo folk singers inhabit smoky metropolitan crawl space; they sprawl on the floors of college rooms; near the foot of ski trails they keep time to the wheeze and sputter of burning logs; they sing homely lyrics to the combers of the Pacific...
...electric shoeshine kit in the closet; old-style elegance is today as vestigial as the ear lobe. Among the brass, glass and steel chains that proliferate across the country, the few fine old hotels left shine like solid gold pieces. The best of the remaining best is a sprawl of pink and green stucco called the Beverly Hills Hotel, which last week turned 50 years old with style...