Word: second-hand
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...also said that none of these complaints have come from Harvard faculty. "I have heard second-hand some reports of grumblings from assistant professors, but I have received no complaints or protests," he said...
...Much of the basis for the grievances occurred before I arrived on the scene in 1970," he said yesterday. "I've attained second-hand knowledge from both sides of what the situation in the Department was like, and I still don't know exactly what the truth...
...president of Egypt's National Assembly, Sadat made his only trip to the U.S. He studied the operations of Congress, marveled over the extensive staffs that served its committees, and met Lyndon Johnson. He toured California and visited Disneyland. In New York, Sadat poked through second-hand bookshops until he had a copy of every book written by his favorite author, Lloyd C. Douglas (The Robe). Sadat had discovered Douglas' books while he was in prison, he explained, and he liked them because "he has tremendous power and he gives faith and confidence...
...make a happy story. But even in the harsh light of 1971, it seems good that the attempt to transcend the world as it was in the sixties was made. One character says of the early days of the drug revolution, "There was no word-defining then, nothing second-hand...
Until popular architecture makes an effort to understand the needs and the spirit of the age, writes Ada Louise Huxtable, "we will continue to have the pious reproductions, the dead reconstructions, the vacuum-packed imitations and the false, nostalgic standards that, at best, evoke only the second-hand suggestion of the artistic glories of some other age, or at worst, throttle creativity and subvert values...