Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctors worked in a makeshift operating room on the floor of the hospital corridor, flights of helicopters fluttered overhead, ferrying army reinforcements to the garrison from Kermanshah, an hour to the south. The fighting took a vicious turn the next day when the army moved tanks to the city center. Kurdish guerrillas dashed from alley to alley. Bullets ricocheted off the brick walls and became embedded in the mud walls of houses. It appeared to be a freelance war, since the rebels themselves are split into four political groups...
...intends to do but they are rarely as memorable as those they issue later on. Nevertheless John Paul's Redemptor Hominis (Redeemer of Man) is a bold document that asserts religion's role as the conscience of the modern world, places Christ and individual man at the center of history and saves its sharpest language to criticize the dehumanizing excesses of modern political and economic systems, capitalist and Communist alike...
...first concert. The program included Verdi and Mozart, but it was Ozawa's showy reading of Berlioz's Symphonic Fantastique that drew an ovation from the normally reserved Chinese. At times the sheer commotion of the visit threatened to engulf any real musical results. The center of excitement was the conservatory. When Violinist Joseph Silverstein wandered into a studio where Situ Dahong, 18, was practicing, the room was quickly jammed by other students, teachers and members of the press, including a CBS camera crew in full armor. The young man kept playing a Bach adagio...
...patches of glistening silversword, the crater is dotted with rose-tipped cinder cones, evidence of minor eruptions over the centuries. It resembles nothing so much as a lunar landscape, and indeed was used as an off-off-planet tryout by the astronauts who made the first moon landing. The center of a 28,000-acre national park, Haleakala can be traversed by shanks' mare or mule train, a three-day mountain high...
Later this year the Lahaina Restoration Foundation will have almost totally rebuilt Carthaginian II (named for the fictional vessel in James Michener's Hawaii), which will be a true replica of a 19th century trader. One of the foundation's major enterprises is a marine research center which is trying to preserve the endangered humpbacks, of which there are perhaps only 850 left. (By dialing 667-9316 you can hear them "singing.") The foundation has also restored to Victorian primness the home of the Baldwin family, pioneer missionaries and landowners of whom the natives still say: "They came...