Word: 94th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program, which will graduate its 94th class this December, was born in 1943 as the War Production Training Course to teach business managers how to cope with meeting World War II production demands, according to Jay W. Lorsch, the program's faculty chairman. Since 1943 it has trained 11,000 executives in general management, financial and strategic planning skills...
Author Hilary Masters begins his memoir with two endings. First, his maternal grandfather is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in June 1954, just a month shy of his 94th birthday. And then Hilary's father, Poet Edgar Lee Masters, is interred in Illinois four years earlier, at age 82. This narrative order runs counter to chronology, of course, but it remains true to the odd regressions of memory, that domain where the last events are most recent and hence preludes to all that went before. Masters' relatives grew old while he grew up; to recapture their pasts...
...POOR MENSCH has been analyzed to death. His children by his first analyst, Dr. Chomsky, are now attending college. To cover expenses he has sold his table at Elaine's and moved into a kibbutz on 94th St. where the sabras have taken to wearing thick glasses and tweed sports jackets. He has confused life with his underwear, sex with lust, and death with a bag lady waving a machete at the fountain in Central Park...
Naturally, the consequence of such prices is that people are clawing their way into every inch of Manhattan space available. After a long quiescence, builders are now providing more space all the time, both office and living. In the East Side area between 50th and 94th streets?the heart of the matter, if the Big Apple were an artichoke?at least eight new co-ops or condominiums are currently in some stage of completion, all high-rising and luxurious, of course, and all smack in the center of things, which accounts for their appeal. At the proposed 44-story Museum...
They were the finest tennis players in the world gathered to contest the most coveted prize in the sport. But for the two weeks of the 94th Wimbledon Championships, they resembled nothing so much as disappointed children kept in at recess, staring wistfully from clubhouse windows as the glowering skies dumped near record rains and even a hailstorm on the hallowed courts of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club...