Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that America is built on the principle that all men are created equal, but you cannot hide from us the vast inequalities of our society. We have only to look around us to see that institutions like Harvard still exist mainly for the sons and daughters of the white upper middle classes. We have grown up with the civil rights struggle, and we know that our black brethren still face indifference, abuse, or even death when they stand up for what we once naively thought were God-given rights. Our teachers and our textbooks tell us that the gap between...
...architects, Mies has always been considered the great classicist. It is thus no surprise that the Berlin museum bears a marked resemblance to a classical temple set upon a giant podium of granite-covered concrete. The podium, or semi-basement, is occupied by the burgeoning permanent collection, but the upper gallery, designed for special exhibitions, dominates the museum. It is simplicity itself: a glass-curtained box with a 213-ft.-square roof upheld by only eight burnished-steel columns. Mies has carried out his concept with subtlety. The columns, for instance, are tapered ever so slightly toward...
There is general agreement that Britain has made an honest stiff-upper-lip effort to right its economy. The fact remains that the country's balance of payments problem is chronic, despite such stringent measures as devaluation of the pound, a bare-bones national budget, tight wage controls and heavy new taxes...
...down over his eyes that he has to cock his head back to see the catcher's signs. Then, with the barest hint of a nod, Denny is ready to pitch. He squirts a stream of spittle out of his mouth, the left corner of his upper lip curls back in a sneer, his hands come slowly together at his chest. Suddenly he wheels to the right, rears back and throws. If it is a strike, McLain licks his teeth with obvious satisfaction. Back comes the ball from the catcher and, as if bored with the very sight...
...tight that he got blood on his camera. And Bill Holden, who, as one Wolper man put it, had played it all along like "the essential Hemingway man," admitted that suddenly he grew "weak in the knees." Later, the chief's son, speaking with a crisp upper-school British accent, explained to Holden that he had attended the ceremony as a gesture to please his dad, though the young man himself did not go in for that sort of thing. That is part of Kenya's ecology...