Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...even merely an idea whose time has come, mirroring the changes in the rest of U.S. society. It is a necessity. Largely because of the Viet Nam War, the prestige of the military is plummeting. Many servicemen, including cadets and midshipmen from West Point and Annapolis, try to hide their military connections when on leave among their peers. There is even a wig market in Annapolis where middies can acquire hirsute camouflage. Re-enlistment rates have dropped to their lowest levels since 1955. Barely 31% of servicemen of all ranks and branches now volunteer for a second term...
...look like cowboys. The women can't hide that they are whores. And beneath the gilt and bravura, the blue hair and mascara green and shiny sharkskin suits, there is the most frightening exhaustion imaginable...
...anthology does not hide Belloc's often absurd fixations. But it does reveal a writer of rare genius and rarer virtues, who had a Romanic love of order, ceremony and pietas, a raging contempt for humbug, snobbism and cant, an adult gusto and a childlike faith, an unerring eye for the telling detail of a life or a landscape, and a blunt, stately, crisp and virile style...
...Club lobby where the poll has been conducted brought forth a variety of uninhibited comments on both sides. Remarks ranged from, "Keep out the riff-raff-why should we look like the rest of Harvard Square?" and "an infringement of academic freedom, but let us retain trousers" to "Coats hide bombs" and "Shouldn't Harvard, above all, tolerate and encourage individuality?" [To this last an opponent had added-"Individuality? yes, in the color of ties...
...pretend her book is about people ("You can see ANYTHING in Cambridge. You can see a Chinese and a Finn moving a chest of drawers across a street, one yelling Chinese and the other Finnish, and you wonder how they ever got across the street."), but she can't hide the fact that her real love is buildings. ("One of the nicest times in Cambridge is about five o'clock in the evening. There's always a sunset over the Sheraton Commander if you look hard enough.") Not surprisingly, the warmest picture of the lot zooms in on Design Research...