Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost of $15,000, 44 rooms and the top two floors in the only hotel near the Washington house were requisitioned. Radio equipment was flown in, and 30 extra telephone lines were installed. To make sure that Callaghan and Carter would be able to take an unmolested stroll, Scotland Yard and the Secret Service combined forces to survey every inch of the route...
Richard F. Rowley '78, vice chairman of the council, said the plan only harmed Mather, since opening the Union was designed to relieve weekend River House crowding but Mather's distance from the Yard enabled it to avoid crowding...
...them--some rich group or figure to control these tenants' lives. The petty bourgeois landlord, played by James Young, is always present, always ready to evict those who hate him. So the question, for these tenants ultimately becomes one of self-respect; if they cannot rise out of the yard, they must learn to live without abandoning hope entirely...
AGAINST A background of degredation, then, the rest of the yard's intimates live out their lives. As Sophie, a mother of two and the wife of an unemployed athlete, Martina Miller appears completely unsympathetic at first, a strident busybody who bitches without reason or mercy. Gradually, however, another side of her character emerges: trapped in a life of broken dreams, she is seen as the only force holding her family together. As her husband Charlie, Rick Guthrie is a broken dreamer, unable to produce the money the family needs to supplement their daughter's newly won scholarship, while Nikki...
Still another couple inhabits the yard, finally: two young adults on the verge of making decisions that will determine the course of their lives. As Ephraim, a young man who leaves Trinidad in frustration, Roland Smart communicates that anger forcing him to abandon his pregnant lover is justified. But as his lover, Karen Ford presents the other side of the same suffocating reality. He may be free to leave; she is trapped, forced to give in, obliged to abandon her dreams of self-respect and upward mobility...