Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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College trustees were once viewed as old curmudgeons interested primarily in saving money and having winning football teams. Though the average age of trustees still hovers well beyond the half-century mark, a few schools have begun to foster a youthful image...
...Woody's road ends, in front of an old church that Ray (James Broderick) and Alice (Pat Quinn) have converted into a communal dorm for wandering kids. Life seems just about perfect-or "together," as the kids say -but Penn sees destruction all around. Ray and Alice, playing foster parents, bitch away at each other in rivalry for the affections of a reformed junkie named Shelly (Michael McClanatha). Woody lies dying in a Brooklyn hospital of Huntington's chorea, a hereditary affliction of the nervous system that Arlo may not escape. When Woody and Shelly die, there...
...although tragic, would have normally rated two paragraphs on page 12, Edward Kennedy, like his brothers, has been assassinated. I for one feel that one of the few hopes of the American political future has been garroted, unfairly, by the iron collar of sensationalism-at-all-costs. K. M. FOSTER San Francisco...
BARDSTOWN, KY. My Old Kentucky Home State Park is, appropriately, the setting for the Stephen Foster Story, a song-filled tribute to the composer...
...already set about carving out a career; he made his professional mark in the scientific and administrative sides of mining. Avoiding politics, he sought the ingredients of what he considered a happy life: "The outdoors, far away places, and mining engineering." It was his mining experience that prompted John Foster Dulles to send him to Iran in 1953 as a trouble-shooter in the longstanding oil dispute. His success in that job led to his appointment as Dulles' Under Secretary...