Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of hot Indiana hot weather that sends the family dog scrooching under the pickup truck to enjoy the shade. But in South Bend, on the Notre Dame and St. Mary's College campuses, heroic athletes from 70 countries were running and jumping and laughing from the sheer joy of it all. No, these were not the Pan American Games, which were to start a few days later, downstate at Indianapolis. The competitors there, everyone knew, would run faster and jump higher. But not happier; world happiness records were being set here at the Seventh International Summer Special Olympics...
Endings. Writers want them to be logical. Directors want them to be spectacular. Producers want them to be reshot. And the public does not want to hear about them -- not until it has been jolted by the hoped-for surprise it paid good money to enjoy...
...view of dissidents, all the evils for which Khomeini once criticized the Shah -- everything from brutality to official corruption -- are being committed by members of the current regime. The government continues to enjoy both popularity and legitimacy among millions of Iranians and can still command masses of young zealots who believe in Khomeini's promise to "march to Jerusalem" by way of Iraq. But the seemingly endless fighting is producing disillusionment among others. Says a factory manager whose plant is virtually closed for lack of raw materials: "A grocer down the block has lost three sons...
Despite the war, many Iranians enjoy themselves. In summer thousands flock to the Caspian Sea, and in winter the ski resorts remain popular. Both beaches and slopes have separate zones for men and women, and there are always the Revolutionary Guards and their chador-clad female counterparts on hand to enforce proper Islamic behavior and maintain the segregation of the sexes. The cinemas, which are often jammed, feature both postrevolutionary Iranian fare and heavily censored foreign films. One recent hit was Barabbas, a 1962 picture starring Anthony Quinn. Another was the Iranian film The Call of the Forest, which dealt...
Although no one can be expected to enjoy standing up and taking responsibility for a failure, Harvard's refusal to do so is an embarrassment. It signals the University's unwillingness to stand by its students in a time of trouble. But, most important, it demonstrates a failure to come to grips with errors on its part which nearly caused the death of 30 youngsters. No one has made a concerted effort to find the cause of--or even to apologize for--this atrocity...