Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chronologically, they constitute a flowing narrative with only occasional gaps or seams. The story begins as young Archive leaves Glencoe, Illinois, to prep at Hotchkiss; a few letters from MacLeish's parents to the school's headmaster, the only ones in the collection not written by the poet himself, bear witness to their son's homesickness and general unhappiness there. In the letters he wrote at Yale and as a field artillery officer in France in 1918, a somewhat romantic earnestness begins to mingle with Ivy League wit. Though a little grating in tone, these letters provide some striking glimpses...
Organizers of big-time events have increasingly felt it necessary to embrace something cuddly, furry or feathery as their mascot-to be licensed for everything from tote bags and T shirts to coffee mugs and lobster bibs. The Moscow Olympics had a bear, the 1984 Los Angeles Games have a bald eagle, and for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, the city fathers of New Orleans picked a pelican. Last week the bird showed up at a Louisiana-sponsored State Department reception, to the amusement of Secretary of State George Shultz, 62. Perhaps his department needs a mascot too. How about...
...issues out there. It's that University Hall and the Faculty Council--the folks who decide on the full Faculty's agenda--are uncomfortable bringing them out in the open, where Harvard's stances can be picked apart by dissenting minds. T.S. Eliot once observed that "Humankind cannot bear very much reality." The sentiment would seem to apply to those responsible for keeping the Faculty's agenda free of ethical dilemmas, for exempting University policies from the test of reality...
Former Alabarna football Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant was admitted to a hospital last night with chesk pains. A spokeswoman for Druid City Hospital said that Bryant's vital signs were stable...
...Argentina] are going to have to reach an agreement about peace in the region and how the islands are governed." The pro-Labor Daily Mirror warned, "There will be other Prime Ministers after Mrs. Thatcher. They will not all share her enthusiasms nor have the same willingness to bear the expense." The price is indeed considerable. Recapturing the islands cost the government $1.1 billion, plus $1.4 billion in damage and loss of ships and aircraft. Declared Thatcher: "To maintain peace with freedom and justice is always expensive, but less expensive than...