Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Golden Bridge. Rhode Island's Claiborne Pell was dubious about the wisdom of bombing the North, wanted to know "where in history do we find other examples of where bombing has made people more willing to come to the negotiating table?" Nowhere, said Taylor. "We have never had a situation like this," he observed. "You recall in World War II it was fight to the end or be destroyed, and many people preferred to be destroyed rather than to accept unconditional surrender. Here we are not doing that at all. We are constantly pointing out the better life that...
Certain prophets are in a positively millennial mood. Harvard's Emmanuel Mesthene, executive director of a ten-year, $5,000,000 program on Technology and Society commissioned by IBM, believes that for the first time since the golden age of Greece, Western man "has regained his nerve" and has come to believe, rightly, that he can accomplish anything. "My hunch," says Mesthene, "is that man may have finally expiated his original sin, and might now aspire to bliss...
More than 40 school systems are using a curriculum developed with federal money by a Detroit teacher, Mrs. Ruth Golden. It consists mainly of tapes for group instruction in which phrases that Negro youngsters often misuse are spoken correctly, then mimicked by the students. In Philadelphia, Temple University helped 160 Negro girls speak better to qualify for secretarial jobs. A similar program at St. Mary's Dominican College in New Orleans led Student Leatrice Frilot to say: "The first time I heard myself on tape, I said 'who is that?'-but once you hear yourself, you know...
...single fluttering candle, a tall solemn priest sits bowed above a resplendent manuscript in his solitary scriptorium. On the table before him lie vials of red and blue and purple inks, pots of honey-colored glue, sheets of gold leaf, and reams of creamy antique vellum glowing golden in the candlelight. Only the scratching of a quill interrupts the rich religious silence as the priest pursues his labor of love...
...Harris's freshman hockey team, boasting an impressive 12-2 record, faces off against undefeated Andover, the top secondary school hockey team in New and, at 4 p.m. in Watson Rink today. In addition to being a real corker, the game will provide a golden scouting opportunity for all those varsity hockey fans who, frustrated by Monday's Beanpot debacle, have begun to look forward to next few years...