Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like the highly publicized "harmonic convergence" in August, do believers in I Ching or crystals gather together with believers in astral travel, shamans, Lemurians and tarot readers, for a communal chanting of om, the Hindu invocation that often precedes meditation. Led on by the urgings of Jose Arguelles, a Colorado art historian who claimed that ancient Mayan calendars foretold the end of the world unless the faithful gathered to provide harmony, some 20,000 New Agers assembled at "sacred sites" from Central Park to Mount Shasta to -- uh -- provide harmony...
...Gluttony Video Institute--comes from the name of a pocket theater which Peter Sellars '80 created in the same room nine years ago. Sellars, who has since directed for the National Theater in Washington, originally named the room the Explosives B Cabaret after a sign he found on a Colorado roadside, now inlaid in the door...
...imports. "Large brewers realize that the microphenomenon is bringing a tremendous vitality to the brewing industry, and if they feel that they need to change their recipes a bit, they will." Some already are doing so. Coors' Winterfest, a heavier holiday beer, was such a success last year in Colorado that it will be introduced nationally this month...
...provocative argument: longer is not better. But Americans have shied off from similar points made in recent years. When former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm spoke out in 1984 about the terminally ill's "duty to die," his forthrightness seemed eccentric. In his writing, the late Dr. Rene Dubos urged more emphasis on the quality rather than the length of life, but his eloquence failed to generate sustained debate. Callahan, arguably the nation's leading medical ethicist, means to make discussion of the subject inescapable. For 18 years, as director of the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., he has grappled...
...three days the scientists drilled, an inch at a time. Last Monday morning, 62 in. into the porous limestone, the carbide-tipped drill broke through. Pieter Tans, a research scientist from the University of Colorado in Boulder, filled six canisters with 159 quarts of air drawn from the chamber. He also took a sniff. Said Tans: "I did not smell history. I didn't smell anything, except maybe staleness...