Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps with that thought in mind, residents of Manhattan's lethal "alphabet city" have transformed a rubble-strewn lot into a community garden, with poetry readings and potluck dinners and tiny plots for 107 local gardeners. Some grow food or medicinal herbs: one woman grows a lawn, just so she can come out on Sunday mornings with her deck chair to read the newspaper. "I've lived here 20 years, and we never used to talk to people on the street," says Sandra Kleinman, now in her fourth year of nursing Egyptian onions and Japanese mustard greens. "I've never...
...myself a big-D and a small-d democrat, yet have never quite understood the slogan "More democracy at Harvard!"--assuming it is more than an empty catchphrase. What is meant by "democracy," and why must Harvard be one? The vague calls for "democracy at Harvard" which have been strewn about my four-year sojourn here result from a reductionism that assumes because democracy may be the best way to run a country or any political unit, then, surely, everything should be run that...
...scale of interesting lives, Hayden's probably rates about 8.5. Alas, he retells it in a cliche-strewn prose, participles adangle, that rarely rises above a 5. Still, readers who can endure the rhetorical posturing -- New York police, at one point, become the "expected forces of the military- industrial complex" -- should find his account of the Chicago convention and trial fast paced and diverting. There is also a moving, elegiac coda in which Hayden revisits Mississippi with his ex-wife Casey and tours Port Huron, Mich., in search of the spot where the SDS was born...
...from inheriting the family bundle. There are nine children, including Ian, and assorted spouses and their children. All are neurotic, vengeful and desperate for money, because Malcolm refuses to sweeten their small trust funds. The author's scheme neatly turns the King Lear plot inside out, observing the wreckage strewn about the heath when an aging tyrant fails to hand over power and wealth to his children...
Most students bothered by the the ties simplytore them off on the third floor, leaving theaisles thickly strewn with red plastic ribbons byyesterday evening...