Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roses overlay the smell of charcoal and seared beef. The thud of baseball against mitt, the abrasive grind of roller skate against concrete, the jarring harmony of the Good Humor bell tolled the day; the clink of ice, the distant laugh, the surge of hi-fi through the open window came with the night...
...early 20th century, middle-class Suburbia was a reality in England, and Social Historian C.F.G. Masterman was perhaps the first of a legion of urban critics to draw a bead on it. Each little red house, he wrote in 1909, "boasts its pleasant drawing room, its bow window, its little front garden . . . The women, with their single domestic servants, now so difficult to get. and so exacting when found, find time hangs rather heavy on their hands. But there are excursions to shopping centers in the West End and pious sociabilities, occasional theater visits and the interests of home...
...nights after the revolution when one of the new government's most hated prisoners, former Interior Minister Namik Gedik, suddenly leaped out of his bed on the top floor of Ankara's military academy. Shrieking "Ya Allah" (O God), he plunged through an unopened double glass window to his death. The hysterical suicide of the boss of Menderes' national police, the man held responsible for beatings and killings of anti-Menderes student demonstrators, shocked the new government and stirred the avenging wrath of the soldiers behind it. Abruptly abandoning his live-and-let-live attitude, Premier Gursel...
Ernest in Love. The newest of off-Broadway musicals is Anne Croswell's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, mounted with sets and costumes so painstakingly assembled that they seem to have been done for a Fifth Avenue window. Adapter Croswell was careful not to shatter the original's cut-glass dialogue. Shuffling identities and romantically mocking romance, Wilde's kaleidoscopic plot is intact as well, from the duplicity of the fellow who has a mythical sick friend called Bunbury and uses him as a shield against dull social obligations...
...nationalization move was conducted on legalistic lines. But the display of legitimacy was mere show-window stuff for the fellahin in Cairo's bazaars. In truth. Cairo's privately owned newspapers had embarrassed Nasser by making money, an endeavor in which his house organ. Al Gumhuria, has notably failed...