Word: grassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They died, and yet the grass has grown over the world's memory of their murder. Why? The numbers of the dead would surely qualify that entry (one thinks mordantly) for some genocidal hall of fame. Perhaps that is the sort of museum we need on the edge of the Mall: a home for all the great blood scandals: the Armenians slaughtered by the Turks, the Hutus slain by the Tutsis in Burundi, the Cambodians who have died in Pol Pot's haunting imitation of Stalin's barbarisms...
Like many other issues that have sprung into the legislative hopper of Congress from grass-roots American concern, the final House resolution was a compromise. Originally, the document called only for the Reagan Administration to pursue an "immediate, mutual and verifiable" nuclear arms freeze with the Soviets at the ongoing arms-limitation talks in Geneva. The White House insisted, however, that an acceptable arms-reduction agreement would have to be reached before an arms freeze could take place in order to prevent any Soviet advantage in bargaining. Under the sponsorship of Republican Henry Hyde of Illinois and Democrat Elliott Levitas...
...grants process was administered with model efficiency. Applications required detailed explanations of how the money would be used and the status of an applicant group's own finances. To avoid developing parasite groups, the council repeatedly insisted that organizations demonstrate attempts at garnering money from other sources including grass-roots fundraising. And all grant decisions were made in public, where applicants and others could serve...
...cans and papers that lay in the path I was following. As I straightened up and went on my way, I overheard a little knot of French visitors who had been watching me with amazement. They stared for a minute at me and then at the rectangles of ragged grass, with their uprooted palins and their usual scatteration of papers, bottles, and plastic wrappers smeared with remnants of junk food "Tiens!" exclaimed one of the women. "It's democracy in action. The Americans may be slobs, but at least they're ingenious enough to make the professors clean...
Today, as one strolls along the gray slate walk ways which randomly pattern the lush green grass. Princeton seems as steeped in custom and tradition as its reputation testifies. There are lew lively protests and no noticeable banners bearing the slogans of activist groups. The campus remains stable and calm. However, the residential college system, a new drinking law, and lingering barriers apparent to minorities have yet to make their full impact on the Princeton campus. In four years the scene might be entirely different