Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prints at the Fogg--woodcuts, engravings, etchings and drypoints from Durer to Franz Kline. This is an excellently planned exhibit, in the L-shaped gallery in the back corner that nobody ever visits its purpose is to be a teaching tool for the Freshman seminar on Prints and Printmaking, and it does a good job of explaining how the various kinds of prints and papers are made...
...confrontation isn't the police's fault. They are a faceless tool belonging to whomever is in control of the city. The march leaders only precipitated the conflict. They let the march's outcome be inevitable. Go down on road or go down the other, but prepare for the consequences. To have your head opened for no purpose would be damn maddening...
...medium of his thought induced in him the feeling that he was defending humanity from the onslaughts of a civilized society gone barbarian. "Politics and the English Language" was written by a humble man who wanted to keep language itself humble and accessible. He wanted English redeemed as a tool to aid in the task of rebuilding society on the humanistic foundation the War had undermined...
Died. David M. ("Carbine") Williams, 74, inventor of the M-l rifle used by U.S. troops in World War II; of bronchial pneumonia; in Raleigh, N.C. Williams designed the gun in the tool shop of a North Carolina camp for incorrigibles where he was imprisoned after pleading guilty to killing a deputy sheriff. His inventions eventually made him a millionaire and the subject of a 1952 movie starring James Stewart...
...ticket manager. Page is sometimes able to help desperate sportswriters and alumni, and when he does, he often gets gifts of whiskey at Christmas in gratiude. Page does not drink, so he sells the liquor to the Varsity Club, and recently he used his earnings to build a tool shed at his Bedford house, a few blocks from where Matthews lives...