Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With perceptions heightened by drugs, said Parsons, a man might "reach a greater understanding of early China by investigating the fondness that the ancient Chinese had for the particularly exotic dish of bear paws." Or a researcher who wanted to understand President James K. Polk, suggested the professor, could hole up for two years in an ante-bellum Tennessee mansion, read the books Polk would have read, ride horseback through the countryside and trip out occasionally on drugs-all in order to put himself inside Folk's psyche. Parsons' point is that historians too often neglect what...
Groups are being formed round the country to bring pressure to bear on Congress and the Administration to grant amnesty, and the American Civil Liberties Union is opening an office in New York this week to coordinate their efforts. The question may be one of the emotional issues of the presidential campaign. Though the Democratic front runner, Senator Edmund Muskie, believes that the matter should not even be discussed until the war is over, other Democratic contenders, Senator George McGovern and New York's Mayor John Lindsay, have taken positions in direct opposition to Nixon. McGovern has announced that...
...Year's Eve, the white-clad throngs gather on Brazil's beaches after dark, more than a million people in Rio alone. They bear worldly offerings-lipstick, combs, jewelry, perfume, mirrors, flowers-to give to a vain, beauteous sea goddess. Called lemanjá, she is one of the pantheon worshiped by the various devotees of the pagan cults known as Umbanda, Quimbanda, Candomble, or-to its detractors-as Macumba...
Alas, too true. But these days, bad news arrives thicker and faster than the mind can follow, or bear to contemplate. Often it seems that all one can muster in response is, at best, some variation on Hamlet's simple formula for mourning-"Absent thee from felicity awhile"-or at worst, numb weariness and futility...
...Harvard hired Bob Harrison, and Maryland chose Lefty Driesell Both schools wished, basically, to build ballclubs that would be competitive nationally. Maryland, which hopes for a little more, has taken one method and philosophy, Harvard another. It will bear watching which made the better choice of fitting the man to the dream...