Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during exam period. The worlds of fact and doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!') collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60c ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated and there...
...told his mistress, Lucy Krohg, who still runs a gallery on Paris' Right Bank, that he could no longer cross a street without her. The passage of time frightened him so much, she recalled last week, that he once threw a grandfather's clock out of the window. But time caught up with him. In 1930, at the age of 45, Pascin slashed his wrists, wrote "Lucy, Forgive me" on the wall with his own blood, and finding death too slow in coming determinedly hanged himself from his studio door...
...with the disease. Almost from the moment of his arrival at the hospital on Dec. 9, Ruby's case was considered hopeless-and he knew it. Yet he seemed calmer and more lucid at the brink of death than he had for months-possibly because he had a window to see outdoors and was allowed to sleep in the dark...
...remove a panel in a stout oak door of the Dulwich College museum without tripping an alarm attached to the frame. Their taste in art was impeccable; they snatched eight old masters worth some $7,000,000, including three Rembrandts (among them the widely admired A Girl at a Window). What they had not figured out was who would pay them for their night's work. The college was heavily in debt, and in no position to afford a ransom. None of the works were insured, a fact that ruled out any hope that an insurance company would...
...bankers and business men, the Federal Reserve Board last week moved to ease the money market and increase the supply of lendable funds. The board canceled the terms of its hotly debated letter to banks on Sept. 1, which had shut off the Federal Reserve's discount window as a source of money for any banker who hoped to increase an already high volume of commercial loans. "Credit conditions have changed," said last week's notice from the seven-man board of governors headed by William McChesney Martin...