Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mark Metcalf, 35, of Berkeley, Calif., endured weeks of pain that "felt like I had a hot iron held against the side of my neck," and he found himself "considering suicide as a rational alternative." Every year a number of the chronically suffering make that choice. Pain, said Albert Schweitzer, "is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself...
...with the feelings of euphoria surrounding the ruggers' robbery of the title away from UC-Berkeley--which had won the first three titles since the national tourney was conceived--still in the air, the squad's initial feelings of neglect by the Athletic Department seem to be subsiding...
...question is how so many of us came to regard the University as evil why students literally around the world at Berkeley. Columbia and Harvard, in Paris, Berlin and Italy, felt such bitterness at their universities that they were willing to immolate them in protest...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...Trudeau?...Mum's the word." Nor does Breathed hold back from poking fun at himself. In one of the funniest cartoons in the book, the bewildered young Yaz Fistachio complains that there is no weirder name in the world than her own. Opus, the lethargic penguin, counters "what about Berkeley Breathed...