Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinking them up. I am compiling a volume of masterpieces that TIME has not run, entitled The Greatest Story Never Told. The villains are the editors, the heroes us. In the meantime, I plead guilty to the following: in Casablanca, the Moor the merrier; at the Berlin Wall, the best things in life are flee; Adenauer is der Alter Ego; and Khrushchev was the Vulgar Boatman...
Never mind this classical staff, say the dedicated followers. "Still, stable, traditional--like a wall." Out to the Establishment go the catalogues in pristine cream envelopes, full of offset smugness. "Our custom department gathers the finest of fabrics for every type of wear. We are famous for maintaining expertise of the highest order in cutting and journeyman tailoring to individual order." Sure. All that hoary tradition. Sir, would you like to look at our Steep Rib Cavalry Twill pants or West of England Poacher's Tweeds? I see, sir. Well, here's our British Warm in the Snug British Officer...
...Dismissal" differs from expungement only in that the student's name may remain in some obscure file or writ large on some grey wall of athletic heroes. Passed by a vote of the Faculty, a student who has been dismissed will not be allowed to return to Harvard except by a vote of the Faculty. Since 1952 there have only been four or five dismissals--none of them has been seen on campus since...
...voters who provided Collins with the mayoralty nomination in 1959, and 1963 are primarily lace curtain or wall-to-wall Irish, and they seek candidates whose conduct and demeanor flatter their own image. Should Collins be unwilling to run again they will probably give the nomination to someone else who closely fits their stereotype, like former Presidential Assistant Kenneth P. O. Donnell...
Some 500 students -- mostly freshmen -- hung James Craft, dean of men, in effigy in the Men's Quadrangle, and then stampeded toward the women's residence. They tore down a picket fence, they destroyed a plywood wall built around the site of construction of a fine arts building, but it took only two squad cars and four policemen to stop them short of the women's dorm...