Word: bashings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THEY DEDICATED the University's new biochemistry laboratory last week, and all the big science gun showed up. With a half-dozen congratulatory speeches followed by a wine-and-cheese bash, the ceremony was no less than festive. Research assistants clad in white gowns and wide-eyed pre-meds happily crowded into the back of the new building's sparkling lecture hall, competing to see how many Nobel Laureates they could spot. (The winner found four). Closer to the front of the room professors loudly congratulated one another, relieved that after 14 years of waiting, Harvard's Biochemistry Department finally...
...Answer. Just think of it. Forty thousand in the stands, 20,000 on the field, and those without tickets could picnic on Soldiers Field outside and still hear the music. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the rest (assuming they don't have stomach flu, shoulder cramps, or whatever) could bash out "Sympathy for the Devil" from a stage adjacent to the big Crimson "H." For Harvard the advantages are obvious: a new image of hipness, relevance and public service of the highest order, and, one suspects, a lucrative financial reward...
...dimly lit Science Center lecture hall; a band called "Hand to Mouth" has played its last notes to a sweaty crowd of strangers in Memorial Hall; and four faculty discussions, two Yard concerts, a brunch, a talent show, a square dance, a peripatetic performance, and an ice cream bash have all run their course. Freshman Week 1981 is over, and the Class of 1985 is already reminiscing...
...Zakaria' written in. So I thought, 'What is this, some kind of joke,' because I hadn't signed up for co-ed softball. But then I looked in the face-book, and there was a picture of Aamir Zakaria. I finally met him at the ice-cream bash--It turns out that he's my first cousin. I never knew he was coming to Harvard--I'd never even...
PERHAPS, ALSO, THE Reagan plan will also set off a round of consumer spending that will do nothing but increase inflationary pressures--a sort of hyperthyroid version of the Reagan inaugural bash. One group guaranteed better times ahead under the Reagan years are the defense contractors, who will, as they did in the 1960s, absorb absurdly wasteful amounts of money. In return for this windfall, the nation will receive little: no great number of jobs because defense spending is a notoriously ineffecient way to create employment; no economic benefit because defense spending is non-productive and inflationary; and no peace...