Word: bumper
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This year, Harvard produced a bumper crop of fellowships. Although Harvard always does well by most schools' standards, many students and fellowship officials are saying this year was truly special. The College garnered a record number of Rhodes--10 American and one Canadian--and about one-third of all Marshalls--five. Members of the Class of '88 also snagged numerous Fulbrights and a Luce in the national competitions. And Harvard sources say that the aplicants for the University's own fellowships were also particulalry strong this year...
...Ground, a cantata written in collaboration with Composer William Schuman that was performed in New York City in 1986 to mark the Statue of Liberty's 100th birthday. That a serious poet would contribute his skill to a national celebration, throwing well-chosen words into the melee of fireworks, bumper stickers and beer, may seem surprising. Yet Wilbur's poetry has never drawn a sharp distinction between public and private occasions. The job of the poet, his work implies, is to be a messenger between outer and inner worlds, to specify and make memorable what everyone already knows...
Silicon Valley has not seen such a bumper crop since it stopped growing peaches and prunes and began producing computer chips. Hardly a week has gone by this spring without a ballyhooed announcement of a new semiconductor or a line of high-speed computers. At the center of the excitement is a new breed of microprocessors that promises to give computer manufacturers their biggest performance boost in a decade. Lightning fast, the chips make it possible to put the power of ten to 20 refrigerator-size minicomputers into a single desktop-size machine...
...crowded roads and skies, and are buying up cars and rights-of-way to offer a plush alternative to a traffic jam. The Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad carries 100,000 passengers between Boston and the Cape from May through October. While motorists on the single major highway are bumper to bumper, passengers can recline in the velvety Presidential parlor car, built in 1925. Next May in California, the Napa Valley Wine Train is expected to begin shuttling wine lovers from vineyard to vineyard in vintage railcars...
...next time I come in contact with someone so obviously deranged, I may not be able to restrain my desire to strangle him. I doubt there is or will be a cure, but anality should definitely be treated as a disease, and Harvard should be able to provide a bumper crop of poster children for the first telethon...