Word: bee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the 1971 agreement negotiations between Radcliffe and Harvard, then-President Mary I. Bunting likened the whole procedure to her bee-keeping hobby. The delicate process of combining two beehives, she said, must begin with the choosing of one colony as the base. Then, the cover of the hive is removed and layers of paper are placed over it to separate the two bee populations. By the time the workers of both hives have caten through the paper, they are supposed to have become accustomed to each other. "With luck it all works out," Bunting said, adding that the honey...
...Great Molasses Flood of 1919 is, according to the press release, "an independent outerspace musical based on an actual event, with poetry by Joe Dunn, music by the Spheres and Carla Bee, and dance by Holly Whipple." It's not exactly clear what the actual event is, but in 1919 President Lowell sent Harvard students into Boston to scab during the police strike. Two students were killed while they did their class duty and undermined the workers. Maybe the molasses flood was more entertaining; it certainly must have been more heroic. The show is being presented by the People...
...longer seems able to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," and Frazier has passed that point in his career when he reigned as the most intimidating boxer to step into the ring since Liston...
...then perform the necessary calculations in a flash and display the changing patterns on a cathode ray tube, providing a remarkable kaleidoscopic show. Sometimes the counters quickly settle into what Conway calls "still lifes" - stable, unchanging figures, including those known in the game's already rich jargon as "bee hives," 9, "snakes," 10 or "long ships," 11 . At other times the patterns may pulse, like the "traffic lights," which flip-flop between patterns 12 and 13. Other figures, including "gliders" and "spaceships," actually move across the board. Some seem to leave clouds of debris behind in their travels ("puffer...
...Mike Bee won his match at 150 lbs. for Harvard, but Lee forfeited the 158 lbs. spot to save Jim Gebhart for the second match against UMass. Cris Kimball (167 lbs.), Jim Strathmeyer (177 lbs.), and Bruce Johnson (190 lbs.) all went down to defeat, sealing the match for Hofstra...