Word: swap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations and snapshots of their favorite jobs. Princeton itself came in for some sly digs. Philadelphia's George Howe, with an eye to the architecturally mixed but mainly neo-Gothic campus, observed that "collegiate Gothic and collegiate Georgian buildings are neither Gothic nor Georgian nor collegiate, but charnel houses...
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...swap of 148 U.S. and British schoolteachers (TIME, Dec. 23) was not all a warm handshake across the sea. Pueblo, Colo, sent a teacher to London, got in exchange a pert, plain-spoken London schoolmarm named Miss Alice Elliott. When the Pueblo Lions Club asked for her honest impressions of U.S. schooling, Teacher Elliott startled the local Lions with a little roaring of her own. Excerpts...
Under the El. But the streets to the west of this riverside grandeur are lined with dirty brownstones, tiny groceries, laundries, swap shops and antique stores. Along Third Avenue, blacked out and shaken by the thundering El, Irish bars and French bistros alternate with English and Swedish restaurants. Most famed: P. J. ("Paddy") Clarke's saloon at 55th Street, enlivened by the stuffed figure of the original four-legged Paddy, who used to deliver buckets of beer to regular patrons; Tim Costello's, jampacked with newspapermen, its walls decorated with original Thurber drawings; the fabulously expensive Chambord (pompano...
Robert struggles desperately and articulately against his love for Sylvia, fighting his own Leftist Conscience. Over a couple of decades, Robert and Sylvia keep running into each other all over seething Europe. They make love, part, meet again and swap Miss Hellman's acid-etched lines while Jews are being slugged on Berlin's streets (1928), while fascist bombs are crashing on Madrid (1936), while Paris diplomats are cooking up the Munich deal...