Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate over the fate of Mt. Graham is echoing in Cambridge, even outside Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy Irwin I. Shapiro's Garden St. office...
...outside world looks back with a combination of encouragement for the independence movements and wariness of the consequences if they push their cause too far too fast. Here too there is a parallel with the fate of the Ottomans. The Eastern Question, as the political dangers and opportunities of Ottoman decline were collectively known in the 19th century, provoked decades of diplomatic maneuvering and espionage, along with occasional bloodletting. In 1854 the British and French joined forces to prevent Russia from seizing Turkey's European provinces. The result was the Crimean War, which gave the world Florence Nightingale, the charge...
...probable that this narrow committee will select a president who will use his or her office to advocate a national solar energy plan, pollution source reduction, parental leave, or even open and regular office hours for students, as the Princeton president has? And what will the fate be of the decrepit Afro-Am Department in the hands of Harvard's corporate cardinals? Will Harvard's laboratories perform science for the people, or continue into the next century with science for profit...
...been the unlucky fate of "High and Low" to attract more than the usual dose of the New York art world's free-floating anxiety. Art-world anxiety is not like real-world anxiety: it is even more paranoid. What the art world frets about is how Varnedoe, whose appointment as director of painting and sculpture at MOMA has made him America's most powerful museum figure in the modern and contemporary field, will represent all its factional interests. Hence his every action is scrutinized and picked to bits, as Etruscan haruspices once examined sacrificial livers for a sign...
Seed says her name was chosen by her father, who as a child was often asked "What kind of Seed are you?" In order to save his children from a similar fate, he decided to name three of them after plants: Caraway, Cotton and Huckleberry...