Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Norwegians have no intention of dismantling their social net, they are becoming increasingly irritated at its red tape. Says Ragnhild Braathen, a Telemark housewife: "The regular citizen struggles against a wall of bureaucracy. People have waited 20 years before receiving their disability pensions. I know a woman who applied for 'single provider assistance.' She is still waiting for an answer and her 'child' is now 35 years old." Complains Kjell Lorentsen, a schoolmaster in northern Norway: "Responsibility for any decision seems to dissolve into powder...
Ricotta. At Off the Wall, nightly...
...temple's chandeliers and yellow walls replace the dim lights and drab walls of the hallways. The chandeliers illuminate small red, orange and blue banners, spattered with sewn-in mirrors and paintings of Krishna performing miracles and embracing Radha, his lover. Stained-glass windows cover one of the smaller walls of the rectangular room and provide a colorful backdrop for a light blue throne surrounded by white chrysanthemums. On the throne, sitting on a red cushion, is a picture of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the spiritual master and founder of ISKCON. He faces an orange curtain...
...temple the devotees sit along a wall playing soft music and chanting devotional songs as visitors sit cross-legged, some singing along, all of them with their backs to the wall. It is the bhajan, the time for prayerful, mellow song and the prelude to the lecture, the aroti and the prasada...
Telford Taylor, professor emeritus at Columbia Law School and visiting professor at the Law School, said that despite the Soviet Union's insistence that other countries not interfere in its legal system, American lawyers must try to "break through this wall...