Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior concentrator James Wolf calls VES "the bastard child of an art school and an architecture school," and some students dislike the concentration's breadth, saying they would like to see it's subject matter broken down into smaller, more intensive departments. This breadth can lead to disillusionment among concentrators. "VES is a real Harvard invention," says concentrator Sergio Huidor '88. "They want to make sure that everything interlocks, and this results in careful but not thorough teaching. There are only two painting courses, introduction and intermediate, and then you have to do everything through independent study...
...bust. In 1976, when the first Baby Boomers hit 30, the total fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to a historic low of 1.7 children per married woman, less than half that posted by their parents. Furthermore, as many as half the generation's children will wind up in broken homes. As Boomers married in the 1970s, the national divorce rate doubled. For the youngest age group, the divorce rate tripled in a decade. Many women--up to 10% of all female Baby Boomers--are choosing never to marry at all. Indeed, the word spinster has lost its stigma...
...International Airport, 18 miles outside Colombo. Airline officials insisted that all luggage had been X-rayed, but the bomb is believed to have been hidden in a crate of vegetables, which apparently was not examined. The explosion snapped the plane in two as flames and debris shot from the broken fuselage. Passengers were hurriedly evacuated. Sixteen people died, most of them European and Japanese tourists on their way to beach holidays in the Maldive Islands, and 20 others were critically wounded...
During lottery season, the pursuit of the perfect rooming group begins. Sometimes new friendships must be formed or old ones broken to fit the desired suite. Lottery chances are calculated and scrutinized...
They had blasted off from Cape Canaveral last January to the thunderous roar of Challenger's five rocket engines. They returned last week to a respectfully silent ceremony on the Cape's runway where their shuttle mission, if successful, would have landed. The quiet was broken only by two disparate sounds: the somber cadence of tramping boots as an Air Force honor guard gently placed the seven flag-draped coffins aboard a Lockheed C-141 transport plane, and the cheery song of a nearby flock of mockingbirds...