Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publicity) and got considerable attention in the Dallas papers, including a sympathetic editorial in the Times-Herald. As the story spread across the nation, in news reports and on TV, Mrs. Cowan got so many telephone calls that she had her phone disconnected, and we got a whole wave of letters coming to her support...
...problem of noise annoyance has taken on monstrous proportions during the new wave of apartment building. It is all a question of mass, says Architect N. Dan Larsen of Manhattan's Frederick G. Frost Jr. & Associates: "World War II is a convenient dividing line. During the war, new, lighter materials were developed. The masonry wall eight to ten inches thick gave way to a plastered metal lath partition two or three inches thick." The whole thing resonates like a drumhead...
Some pieces are downright hilarious, such as Dorothy Parker's description of a torturous afternoon at the beauty parlor in "Life on a Permanent Wave." Occasional significant essays add to Vogue's intellectual stature such as Camus' "The Crisis...
...that Conant stated 21 years ago are as significant today. It was easy to ask for loyalty to the great traditions of Western civilisation and to talk of educating for citizenship, in the midst of a World War, Harvard's program was born on the crest of an intellectual wave which rose at Chicago and Columbia--it was not a pioneering and daring venture...
Before approving the idea by an over-whelming majority, the Council rejected a motion to postpone consideration until "the wave of emotion" created by the late President's assassination had subsided...