Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employ one of civil disobedience's most sacred weapons, the hunger strike. With a large contingent of foreign press on hand for the Gorbachev visit, the decision seemed a brilliant public relations ploy. But the choice of tactics also harked back to the sensibility of a much earlier age...
COLLECTED POEMS by Philip Larkin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.50). The pre- eminent poet of his time, Larkin died in 1985 at age 63. This collection includes works previously unpublished or unavailable in book form, and documents the triumph of a poet who found his style by lowering his voice...
...mission is to deter war, not simply win one. For 500 years, every European generation has had to learn anew about war. Now, for four decades we haven't had one here. I don't think it's a coincidence that this period has coincided with the nuclear age...
...long shot." The grizzlies will, however, find it more difficult to locate a crucial source of prehibernation protein, the whitebark pine nut. Though less than 20% of the whitebark pine trees in the park were burned, some scientists feel that a larger percentage of trees of nut-bearing age were killed. A shortage of the nuts could drive bears from higher altitudes this fall -- and into more confrontations with humans...
Most of our grandparents never made the Harvard connection. A sampling of a dozen current students turned up the following information about what grandparents were at the age they could have been attending Harvard: a Jewish store clerk, an Irish bar bouncer, a Texas construction worker, a New York Italian cop, a Black post office worker, a Connecticut farmer, a Texas reverend, a Jewish actuary, an Italian cleaner, a Black teacher, a Puerto Rico businessman and pool hall owner, a senator in Taiwan and a Naval doctor in China. The majority did not attend college...