Word: blesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rhonda L. Karol '84 was walking back from the library when we saw a group of students sarcastically singing "God Bless America." Laura A. Haight '84 remembers "getting drunk with a friend of mine who had never gotten drunk before. A bunch of us went around wearing black...
...Lennox Leslie Wongoma Sebe, 57, Homburg-hatted and morning-suited, cruised through the streets of Bisho, his capital city, in a black Cadillac. Then, guarded by a gang of security men in ill-fitting suits and sunglasses, Sebe led a flag-waving crowd through a spirited rendition of Lord Bless Africa, the national anthem. "The golden egg of development has been laid," Sebe is fond of saying. "It is now up to Ciskei and its people to see that the chicken of prosperity is raised with loving care...
...songs by such liberati as Mario Thomas, Bella Abzug, Bette Midler, Sally Ride and Shirley MacLaine, who wished the birthday girl "success and happiness in all your future lives." Ride, for her part, recalled that her mother, after watching Sally rocket away on television last June, had said, "God bless Gloria Steinem." Steinem, meanwhile, characteristically interpreted her friends' outpouring of affection as a political harbinger. Said she: "Women seem to be the one group that gets more radical with age-some day an army of gray-haired women may take over the earth...
...wars--Europe has got ten the short, sharp end of the stick. Screwing up has a different meaning for them (By the way, that's part of why they have a real peace movement and we have, oh, Dr Helen Caldicott, who writes books with titles like "Missile Envy." Bless her motives, though...
...third great inspiration, George Balanchine. Unlike most people in the dance world, Tharp is no expert on his choreography, but she knew what she needed to learn from him. "He understood about music," she says. "He understood about dramatic and social dancing. And he understood everything about the erotic, bless his heart. He was a craftsman, not someone who took a 19th century artistic pose. He trained generation after generation of dancers, each a development on earlier ones, and his own work developed and diversified. He was a good businessman - I like that - and I loved the flair...