Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hundreds of them. Some of the students taking them were not even born at the time of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, and most of them could not explain what that resolution was. To many college students, the Viet Nam War might as well be the Peloponnesian wars: both are ancient history. Many students cannot say whether the U.S. was allied with the South Vietnamese or the North Vietnamese...
...1960s was "a fabulous time for development in the Third World. Here, it was the worst time of the war." Energy is scarce. The country's infrastructure is decrepit. Ten years of inflexible Communist dogma have only hobbled the economy further. Four out of five workers farm, but the ancient techniques are pathetically underproductive. By 1979, famine was a possibility, as disastrous typhoons and war with China hit simultaneously. The country now depends on Moscow for $2 billion a year, an amount equal to more than 20% of Viet Nam's gross national product...
...Monchengladbach that got the prize for Hollein. The three-year-old hillside museum is like a tiny town within a town, an agglomeration of distinct but compatible structures, a labyrinth set on its own stone Platz. Undula- ting red brick terraces hug the slope, relaxed and vaguely mock-ancient, not abrasive Disneyland replicas. As ever, Hollein succeeds in pleasing with the highly particular small space, the odd cutout corner or voluptuous semicircular marble stair. Monchengladbach has the virtuoso exuberance of a big, ambitious first novel, brimming with every story fragment and shimmery turn of phrase the author can muster...
...time to Mike Stenhouse '80. Stenhouse has since been traded to the Twins, where he figures to enjoy a great deal of success as a designated hitter. In their short history, the Expos have only had one other Ivy League grad on their roster. Ten points for naming this Ancient Eight great...
...Harvard football team, many of whom had been volunteers at the museum, rented trucks to recover collections of ancient coins and artifacts that had been shipped to Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., in the 1940's. The museum's revitalization culminated with its reopening to the public...