Word: treading
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...grim faced place. A meagre garden decks its front, and the inside is all stark white surfaces--clean line meeting line. Quite the proper house for art, this ascetic place to go to look but not to touch. The spareness is calculated for hushed awe. Culture lovers tread softly through these rooms of the great and the dead. No spring romps through these solemn halls. For this is the showcase of the Tasteful...
...Council. His latest appointment confirms his double role of academic savant and government servant--he has served the Federal government's executive branch nearly continuously since 1961. Like his predecessor, John Kenneth Galbraith, the most visible member of the Economics Department, Moynihan has added New Delhi to the well-tread Cambridge-Washington route. If he follows Galbraith's lead as the art collector by bringing back more Indian miniature paintings from his jaunt, the Fogg will welcome him home...
...application of these virtues was easier when Harvard was a religiously monolithic community. But in a community of pluralism, secularity, and ethical humanism a minister must tread cautiously, Gomes observed...
...Reed was half the brains behind The Velvet Underground. Andy Warhol's slightly successful excursion into rock as theater. The other half was John Cale. Seems that John used to tread upon Lou's rock 'n' roll shoes a lot in those days. It got to the point where the band wasn't big enough for both of them, so Cale split, leaving the Velvets to some good rock 'n' roll for a year or so. Now Lou's gone the way of his good friend David Bowie, but he's still supposed to know how to rock 'n' roll...
Such attempts have habitually failed in the past even when opposition to the war was much more heated. Congress has never been able to cut off funds for the war. Discouraged as they may be, many legislators are reluctant to tread on that executive prerogative. In the case of the current escalation, the will seems to be lacking to mount a successful challenge to the President. "I sense a kind of public apathy, a feeling of hopelessness about it all," says Senator Frank Church. The bombing, he declares, will "merely deepen the sense of cynicism about our leaders...