Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pivotal event of Pearl's freshman year. On a balmy April day, hundreds stayed out of classes and marched around buildings to show their support for divestiture and Afro-American Studies. Two things stick in her mind about that day. One is that middle-aged men wearing dark suits carefully photographed the faces of all the boycott organizers, who were identifiable because they wore white armbands. And the other is that a minority group wanted to link arms and forcibly block students from going to classes...
Shortly before 6, the dining room at Le Français has reached a state of burnished perfection. Above, dark wood beams and bronze chandeliers. Below, fresh flowers, crisp linen, the gleam of silver and crystal. Doris Banchet, the German-born wife of the chef, appears by the entrance in a chic black dress adorned with a golden rooster brooch, "the sign of good cuisine," she explains. Now it is the waiters, formal in their tuxedos, who take over, announcing the program and pacing the elaborate performance. The first guests arrive: James and Judy Horn, a pair of young Chicago...
With golden medals glimmering on the breast of his dark suit, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev slowly made his way though the lilacs and carnations to the podium. "Glory! Glory!" chanted 6,000 exultant members of the Young Communist League as their ailing leader, in his deep and slurred growl, began to speak. But a dramatic hush descended over the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses when Brezhnev reached the heart of his 35-minute address. The Komsomol delegates knew, as did Washington and the rest of the world, that the Soviet leader was planning to answer Ronald Reagan...
...David Livingstone did not go to Africa in 1841 to explore the Dark Continent but to save souls in darkness. The conversion of native tribes was his task, specifically the Bakwena. Their chief, Sechele, became Livingstone's one and only convert, a pivotal event and, to Livingstone's missionary spirit, a crushing rebuke, around which British Playwright David Pownall's tragicomic drama revolves...
...hears already the night sounds of autumn: slide projectors clicking in the dark to punctuate a drone of travelogue. The oppressed audience writhes and dozes and works its eyes open and shut like jalousies. Etna will be seen in a bleeding, theatrical sunset. The Acropolis will be out of focus, Dorothy sharp in the foreground. Here is Carl squirting himself with a wineskin at Pamplona. Retired professors (triumphs of evolution) will stand over Galapagos turtles, grinning like Teddy Roosevelt after a kill. In some former slave-driving colony of the Caribbean, Dwayne will lounge by the pool wearing his Club...