Word: caped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heimert unlike many other Americans tried to listen rather than prescribe to us what our political views should be," says James Moulder, director of Public Relations at the University of Cape Town of the master's trips to South Africa...
...Heimert says he met with Blacks, but he disagrees with SASC on whom he should meet. Heimert says he consulted with Black educators informing them about the program, pointing to a meeting in Cape Town with Black professors and a meeting with members of the Soweto Parents Council, a community effort to educate Blacks in that segregated township. "I meet with educators," when involved in an educational project, not politicians, Heimerts argues...
...enormously to Alan Heimert's credit that instead of being an imperial, colonial-minded American by interfering in our politics, he consulted with Black and white South Africans about what Harvard can do," says Moulder, who arranged Heimert's meetings in Cape Town...
...Even at that point, however, a senior Thiokol official at Cape Canaveral refused to endorse the recommendation," the Post quoted an unidentified commission member as saying. "This shook us to the socks. We were unprepared for it. It changed the whole tone of the investigation...
...appeal of an island is older than prose. It is a universal symbol, as valid for the isolated state as for the besieged heart. In this lean, piercing novel, Lisa Grunwald renews the metaphor by making Sanders Island, off Cape Cod, Mass., a garden and a desert. The narrator, Jennifer Burke, is the younger daughter of what seems an ideal couple: Milo and Lulu Burke are so devoted that they have always refused to fly in separate planes because "they wouldn't have wanted to go on without each other...