Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready for 1960. President Eisenhower, always reluctant to take a hand in politics on a partisan, partywide basis, would be even less likely to help in the next two years. That left Nixon as the functional political head of the Republican Party, yet he would have to walk carefully to avoid stepping out of line with Ike, whose good will he would need now more than ever...
...walk down Prospect Street is the pleasantest excursion at Princeton. Down a broad, tree-pillared avenue, with great and handsome residences on either side, substantial edifices of stone and brick and leaded glass--the clubs. You can float down Prospect in a Fitzgeraldian dream, the wealth of accomplished architecture styles deluding you into the past. But up and around the corner, on a busier street, sets a building simple as reality, and as unavoidable as 1959. That is Prospect Club, its name a wistful mark of its exclusion. Prospect has always been the poor club, the wonk co-op club...
...quad will be built at a little distance from the dormitories, and a good walk from the clubs. The first two-hundred man unit will house students and tutors together, a 5,000 to 10,000 volume library, common rooms and a dining hall--all in the same building. The later two units will be linked onto the central building...
...summers. Ford and Hall both began to be aware of the way the years clicked off. New students came, and there were end-of-semester exams. Each of them had married, each had two children, and occasionally on a Sunday afternoon one or the other, family in tow, would walk up to the old three-story brick house and pay Professor Greg a visit.... Greg rarely said anything about what he was working on, or even whether he was working toward any specific goal; but Hall and Ford often ran into him in the library, saw him picking...
...Marceau's devotion to his extraordinary characters-a devotion that enables him to make them not merely funny but amazingly human as well. Haughty aristocrat, aping student, money-loving businessman, dim-witted girl-by the time Marceau has done with them, all have shed their comical trappings, and walk the world in the shape of broken hearts...