Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as far back as 1879 there was such a thing as a "Harvard Girl," but only Mrs. Aggasiz, Radcliffe's founder, used the term. Radcliffe at that time was formally called "The Society for Intercollegiate Instruction of Women," nicknamed the "X College" or the "Harvard Annex"--the popular epithat today. In 1894, however, the Annex incorporated as Radcliffe College, and Cliffies became real...
...favorite image from his first novel, Letting Go (1962), when one sunny day the middle-aged Fay Silberman "goes outside their place in South Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower. He's dead in his seat, . . . a horrible thing. He crashed into a tree with that damn machine." Yup, having swallowed the American dream whole, Roth's Jews--like so many minorities before them--cough themselves to death as the hidden bones lodge in their throats...
...nation's biggest city, the only thing higher than the buildings is the cost of renting a few square feet of space in them. When leases expire these days on apartments not subject to rent controls, landlords throughout New York City are demanding rent increases averaging 26.5%. In Manhattan, rents have been rising an average of 31%, and "horror case" increases of 60% are not unheard of. On top of the boosts, many leases now provide for "automatic" raises of 5% or more a year and further hikes whenever real estate taxes rise. Some landlords offer only two-year...
...before actual mergers can create any fundamental economic values to underpin them. For example, shares of Scientific Data Systems, a Southern California maker of high-speed computers, leaped 17 points, to 120, in one day last week on news of a tentative merger agreement with Xerox. This sort of thing perturbs some economists, who fear that the speculative fever could end in scandal or stock bust. As far as Congress is concerned, that only provides another reason to clamp down on conglomerates and their fancy financing...
...conventions of his day. In an early poem, The Caucasian Captive, he had a maiden fall into a stream and the hero refuse to jump in and rescue her. "I've swum in Caucasian streams," Pushkin explained to a friend. "You can easily drown without finding a damn thing...