Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three weeks ago, a group of Yale rowers stood on the banks of Lake Waramaug, ready to cheer on their teammates in the heavyweight women's varsity eight race at the Eastern Sprints...
...mental sharpness and moods, follow such patterns. Some cycles are as brief as seconds; the heart's permeability to certain chemical ions appears to shift back and forth in less than a minute. Others are measured in months; some people regularly fall into deep depressions in winter and cheer up in summer...
...initiative that reduces global tensions deserves a cheer or two. If warmer relations between Beijing and Moscow lead to reduced military competition, to political liberalization and to economic reforms that integrate both nations into the global marketplace, make that three cheers. Indeed, given the domestic changes launched in 1979 by Deng and in 1985 by Gorbachev and the relationship the U.S. now enjoys with both countries, a return to the threatening dogmas of the Stalin and Mao eras is difficult to envision...
...management at a stockholders meeting. Goodbye, Ealing Studios. Hello, Kafka. And for a while, pretty good Kafka. As he showed in Withnail and I, director Bruce Robinson has a truly weird sensibility, and Grant is his kind of guy, an actor morosely and ferociously resistant to normalcy and good cheer. In a story in which his wife (a spiritless Rachel Ward), his boss and medical science tell him all he needs to be cured is rest and a more optimistic outlook, Grant's is a presence to be treasured...
When was the last time Derek Bok got up in a local Cambridge restaurant and yelled to cheering college students. "Yale Sucks!"? For that matter, when did he ever go to a local restaurant? (When, outside of hockey games, do Harvard students cheer...