Word: gales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safe New York City instead of hurtling Fire Island into the undersea world of Jacques Cousteau. I spent the night pumping raw sewage out of our flooded City basement, while my weather-wise buddies drank themselves into a coma to the pleasant accompaniment of a noisy but relatively subdued gale. The revelry wore on late into the night: one well-prepared inebriate fell asleep in a corner wearing flippers, a snorkel and a life preserver, while his brother wandered outside singing Hindu praises to the 60 mile-an-hour gusts still whipping through the town. Most were still snoring peacefully...
...thereby initiating a new wave of academic racism. Jensen attacked efforts to improve Black education during the 1960s and called for segregated rote learning for Blacks: educational apartheid. By the next year, Daniel Moynihan was telling Life Magazine that "the winds of Jensen were gusting through the capital at gale force." Then in 1971 Richard Herrnstein extended the assertion of genetic inferiority to the entire working class in his Atlantic Monthly article...
...women. The combination of -23° temperatures and 46-m.p.h. winds on New Hampshire's Mount Washington created a -95° wind-chill factor-but did not stop some hikers from risking their lives on its lower slopes. The same was true in New York's gale-whipped Adirondacks, where Psychiatric Social Worker Bill Myers explained that people went out in such weather just because it was there. Said he: "It's an aggressive response, not a passive response like staying inside with a blanket...
...Casanova rows a boat across the Venetian lagoon in a thunderstorm; he holds no oars, sits in no boat, and the wildly surging waves are obviously green plastic. The stock sound of water-in-a-storm fills the air... or is it the sound of plastic bags in a gale? Nature blurs into artifice. Casanova is first seen costumed for a masque--but he never takes off the fanciful white undergarments of that scene, or changes his doll-like pompadour. Costume, one realizes, is his only clothing...
Speakers will include former Democratic Senator from Wyoming Gale W. McGee, Lewis M. Branscomb, vice president and chief scientist of IBM, and John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor and former Secretary of Labor, Oettinger's secretary said...