Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loeb Drama Center's ash trays at $60 apiece. Or that the same Drama Center has been little use at a University that three years ago badly needed an auditorium. Nor should an Architecture professor make it his exclusive concern that Quincy House's roof was designed to trap melting ice, or that inaptly placed columns and poor acoustics do not make Quincy's dining hall the theatre it was supposed to be, or that its House library has no room for expansion. Nor should the individual professor take too much time to worry about the administration of Student Employment...
...blunder has been made by the Queen's advisers, and it is hard to see how they will extricate themselves from the booby trap." The London Evening Standard spoke like a firm but indulgent nanny; half a dozen other London papers chimed in with dismay, outrage, chagrin. Cause of the clamor-and envy: the news that Antony Armstrong-Jones is going to work for the opposition...
Ever since highway patrolmen started using radar to trap speedsters shortly after World War II, U.S. motorists have been searching for ways to beat the electronic rap. With misguided ingenuity, hot-rodders packed hub caps with uranium ore or loaded them with steel balls; they sprayed the fan blades with aluminum paint, dangled static chains from rear bumpers, festooned their radio aerials with strips of aluminum foil. But nothing seemed to foil highway radar, and latter-day Barney Oldfields continued to be hauled in like herring in a net, whining "Unfair...
Speculating about the opinions of other Faculty members, Fleming commented, "I wouldn't be astonished if a group of intellectuals were skeptical about the situation in the South." He noted, however, that "the subject can become tiresome, of course. Some professors may fall into this trap...
Steven Roberts' article on "Student Politics" in your (CRIMSON REVIEW) attacked those who see all issues in a dichotomy such as "Better Red than Dead." Yet his article itself falls into the same logical trap. His dichotomy is between the "realists" and the "simplifiers," between the extremists of right and left and the liberals, whom we are led to believe by inference are the true moderates...