Word: dins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of place where Author George Plimpton remembers Classmate Bobby Kennedy's "coming to parties with a book under his arm, going off to a corner and ignoring the din and chaos as he read." It is the kind of place too where a visiting student, Edward Lewis, now president of St. Mary's College of Maryland, recalls a lecture given by Professor Paul Tillich that ended with 800 students rising to applaud the theologian. Says Lewis: "That's earned mystique...
...dismal Washington summer din is mostly about Justice William Rehnquist's old memos and about sanctions against South Africa. None of this even starts to be as important as the question of what we are going to do in space...
...movement within the reach of nearly all Americans. Nothing, in theory, could be more democratic than that. But as I see and hear America now, I marvel at the apparent enslavement of a robust people to their machines. Nearly everyone must live within earshot of the snarling, thunderous din of traffic. People who motor to their places of employment must make allowances for the time they will spend sitting still in long lines and for the time they will have to devote to finding a place to put their automobile once they arrive. To be spared such an ordeal would...
...other Harvard singing groups, theKrokodiloes and the Din and Tonics, will tourabroad as planned, members of the two groups saidyesterday...
Meanwhile, the din at the Grand Canyon seems to be growing louder. Hikers claim that the thwack-thwack and droning of aircraft echo constantly through the canyon. During a five-hour walk from an overlook known as Hermit's Rest to a station near Cope's Butte, one observer counted 16 helicopters, 36 fixed- wing planes and twelve jets. The constant barrage yielded few moments of uninterrupted serenity and nothing resembling hermitism. "They remind me of a bunch of little gnats, just swarming all around," says Sharon Galbreath, who chairs the Grand Canyon branch of the Sierra Club. Concurs Fred...