Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came to Harvard in the autumn of 1924, an unintimidated freshman in an expectant and receptive mood.... The first time I entered the dining hall of Gore, which was then a freshman dormitory. I went to the nearest empty chair. As I sat down, I said hello to my two or three nearest neighbors. They must at least have looked in my direction; perhaps they may well have grunted a response to my greeting as a minimum concession to etiquette. But my clear recollection is that with very little recognition of my presence they went right on talking animatedly among...
...flaw in style is compounded, in Barber's view, by a major character deficiency - Nixon's tendency to lapse into unguarded behavior after periods of great stress. Nixon himself as much as acknowledged the phenomenon in his Six Crises, and later went on to explode bitterly at the press following his 1962 California gubernatorial defeat. Barber even provides a scenario for a future situation brought on by Nixon's "crisis syndrome": the Administration is defeated on a key issue, Nixon losing face or power in the bargain; at a press conference, he is badgered about...
...challenge in the two decades ahead, the report went on, is to "double the houses, power systems, sanitation, schools, transport, in fact the whole complex pattern of urban living created over several centuries." Can this goal be accomplished? The record in both rich and poor nations is discouraging, though there are a few bright examples. Through high-level planning, Russia, Britain, Venezuela and India have encouraged the rise of small cities to decentralize population. France and Bulgaria fostered new, strategically located regional centers. Switzerland and The Netherlands have attempted with some success to balance growth between cities and rural towns...
...pays any attention-not even the police. Somehow, Camardella feels, the exuberant Brazilians will have to realize that machinery does not have to sound powerful to satisfy its users. A little travel might help accomplish this goal. Says Photographer Valentin: "I'll never forget the first time I went to Miami. All those cars! The hustle! And almost no noise! For a while there, I really thought there was something wrong with my ears...
Ironically, his life ended on a muted but genuinely heroic note. In his late 60s, Weyman finally abandoned-or conquered-his artistic impulses and went to work as a night manager in a Yonkers motel. There, on the night of August 27, 1960, after a year on the job, he was shot to death bravely trying to foil a hold-up attempt...