Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This will definitely afford the Ciceros of Pretoria a real chance to savor a freedom they cherish so dearly in a down-home atmosphere. Vishwambhar Pati Assistant Professor of Mathematics
...alas, no rose is without a thorn. Some have suggested the rose is somehow too genteel, too proper to be the American symbol. Much better the rangy sunflower or the homespun black-eyed Susan. "Most of the beautiful roses we cherish are European roses," said Stanwyn Shetler of the National Museum of Natural History, who testified against the rose and advocated, instead, the phlox. Moreover, like many homegrown American products, the new symbol is prey to foreign infestation, the rose's principal enemy being the Japanese beetle. Despite a few cavils, there seems little doubt that President Reagan will sign...
...Close, who has recorded the children's book Sarah, Plain and Tall, concurs, "I find it challenging. You have to play five or six different parts, and you have to give a real sense of storytelling. I was raised by a mother who read to us every night. I cherish the memory of her voice. In recording Patricia MacLachlan's work, I believe I am keeping alive a good tradition." Updike is both a recorder of his own work and an avid listener to colleagues: "I love to hear authors themselves reading their work. The voice, one presumes...
...nation. Texas proclaimed itself a republic, not a state, 150 years ago. The Texan's ancestral memory is strong. The state's highways are lined with historical markers, as well as with antilittering signs that sound just the right note of truculent nationalism: don't mess with texas. Texans cherish a sort of dual citizenship. They joke about it. Lone Star calls itself the national beer of Texas. It is hard to imagine a man from Chicago calling himself an Illinoisan in the way that a man from Dallas will call himself a Texan...
...traditional response is student apathy. These are the quietist '80s: and these specimens, ladies and gentlemen, are today's college students, so obsessed with their career prospects that they won't lift a finger for the ideals they probably no longer even cherish...