Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, the many assertions that the Core would sail through have narrowed a discussion of education to a discussion of the Core. The Faculty Council is pro-Core and all CUE recommendations must pass through them. Members of CUE believe the Core is a good idea, but why should those who think otherwise believe this group can do more than offer weak amendments? Many students, sensing how little they could do, simply didn't care...
...this spring should be an interesting one: from the looks of this semester's course list, the vast majority of Harvard students want to romp with the Australopithecines, sympathize with the mercy killers, sail the seven seas, or simply have an easy time...
Iphigenia at Aulis unquestionably stands as one of the most timeless and powerful of the Greek tragedies. After the Trojan Paris elopes with Menelaus's wife Helen, the Greek kings and their armies converge on Aulis, from where, under the command of Menelaus's brother, Agamemnon, they will sail to reclaim the woman. There is no wind, however, to blow their sails, and the army becomes restless and angry under the intense heat. The prophet Calchas tells Agamemnon that in order for the gods to provide a wind, he must sacrifice his eldest daughter, Iphigenia. Horrified by the idea...
...reform-and separate them. If the two elements were joined, O'Neill said, a bill would not be passed for at least several months-too late to help the economy in 1978 or, parenthetically, to aid Democrats in getting reelected. A quickie tax cut, he felt, could sail through Congress by mid-February...
...dandy of American art is a woman, Louise Nevelson. Nobody is more recognizable: the fine, blade-nosed Aztec face with its monstrous false eyelashes, like clumps of mink, is as manifestly the property of an artist as Picasso's monkey mask. The sight of Nevelson under full sail-mole-colored hunting cap, peasant flounces, Chinese brocade and wolfskin, bronze pendants clanking, boar's teeth rattling-is one of the few spectacles of complete self-possession in American life; the 19th century poet who walked his live lobster on a ribbon outside the Ritz could not have looked more...