Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the high, grim wall that surrounds the house, hawkers shout, traffic rumbles and pedestrians chatter. Inside the wall, no one speaks to Anthony Grey, Reuters' man in Peking. Grey is confined to a 12-ft.-square whitewashed room, whose window is partially boarded up. Through the window, he can see the wall, and he can catch only a glimpse of a tiny courtyard and-again-the wall. The door of his room stands open, so. that the ever-present guard at the gate can see him at all times. For five months of the year, the room...
...need weep for the brokers or their firms. Though profits on commission transactions will be off from last year, the average 16% that the firms earn on invested capital compares well with any other line of U.S. business. Then, of course, there are those celebrated Wall Street Christmas bonuses -even though many brokers are cutting back a bit. At Merrill Lynch, biggest of all, employees with more than 20 years' service, who collected an ex tra 23 weeks' salary last Christmas, will get only 22 weeks extra this year. Five-to ten-year men will get 17 weeks...
...decided to read the one Hammett novel I had been saving, holding in reserve for some emergency. I went to the Coop to buy it, and although they had a whole wall of mysteries, they had no Hammett. Running from bookstore to bookstore, I quickly discovered that there was simply no place in Cambridge that sold Hammett...
...people who like Norman Mailer and Sylvia Plath (which is alright!) and read like a poet exhausted by the age. At dinner, he'd said something about growing "older and more vulgar," but in Burr he seemed young, and strangely erudite. Introducing one of his poems, "A Baroque Wall Fountain in the Villa," he dismissed the question of "transcendance and acceptance" as "sounding too much like a critic," but at other moments talked offhandedly of Pascal ("The spirit doesn't have any business denying things in the realm of fact"), St. Augustine ("The soul is complete in every part...
Anil Nayar and Larry Terrell, at one and two respectively, swept past their opponents with ease. Nayar's three wall nicks baffled. Army's number one, George Alcorn, and the score was an embarrassing 15-5, 15-6, 15-9. Terrell's match lasted just 20 minutes...