Word: apartement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happy childhood seem small, but, Updike argues, they inexorably determined the life he would lead. As a boy, he developed psoriasis and a sporadic stammer; he could savor reality's entrancing parade but never feel comfortable joining it himself. The recurring rashes on his skin kept him apart, drove his attention inward: "You are forced to the mirror, again and again; psoriasis compels narcissism, if we can suppose a Narcissus who did not like what he saw." One of the hallmarks of his fiction became elaborate celebrations of the status quo. Updike thinks he knows why: "An overvaluation...
...each account for about 41% of the city's 3 million population, there are roughly 150,000 more white voters than black ones. Washington was able to win two terms by putting together coalitions combining virtually all black voters with about one-fifth of whites. But that coalition broke apart last week as 91% of whites opted for Daley and 94% of blacks cast their ballots for Sawyer. Turnout was a ho-hum 64.5% (compared with 74% in 1987), and the falloff in black districts was an especially sharp...
Union leaders long have said they believe Lorenzo wants to break them and tear Eastern apart. But Lorenzo would have a tougher time imposing lower wages at Eastern than he did when he reorganized Continental in 1983. Congress amended bankruptcy law in 1984 to require bankrupt companies to negotiate with unions and prove economic necessity before abrogating contracts...
...parent, former Eliot House resident John P. Adams '60, said this weekend showed him a lifestyle "light years apart" from his own experience at Harvard. Adams said that students are more informal today. But he said some things have not changed...
...just an amazing athlete," women's ice hockey Tri-Captain Brita Lind says. "The biggest thing that sets Char apart is that she almost has a sixth sense, an ability to read and understand the game. It's this sense that allows her to use her athletic ability to its fullest potential...