Word: hails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radcliffe is "not just a college; it is an institution," as Radcliffe Forum Director A. Simone Reagor put it recently. While some label Radcliffe an anachronism, others hail it as a living symbol of the more tranquil society of the past, or of a future society in which women will participate more fully than they do now. As it nears its centennial, the college today is an enigma: Radcliffe receives alumnae donations--some women say they go to school there--but it lacks an official undergraduate enrollment. Radcliffe confuses people...
There is something in politics called "class." It has little to do with pedigree, money, dress or good looks. Instead, it is the essence of the man. Thus the colleagues of big, blustering House Speaker Tip O'Neill, from the back streets of Cambridge, can hail him as "a classy guy." And thus did John F. Kennedy so devastatingly sum up his 1960 victory over Richard Nixon: "He's got no class." Franklin Roosevelt had class. Warren Harding did not. One of the maladies of the Carter Administration these days seems to be lack of class. Class...
...trouble soon came as the Palestinians were conducting doorway negotiations with a Cypriot intermediary. The Egyptian commando Jeep suddenly rolled across the tarmac, guns blazing. The cockpit was a storm of flying glass. Puffs of insulation fell like hail...
...Hail a Jewish Hirbet Hiza. Who will ever recall that once there was a Hirbet Hiza, which we exiled and inherited. We came, shot, burned, blew up, pushed and exiled. What the hell are we doing in this place? Will the walls not scream in the ears of those who will live in this village...
...doctors and lawyers; the local newspaper asks viewers to evaluate its features; advertisers pretest commercials for audience reaction. Columbus' multifaceted QUBE also comparison-shops the local supermarkets and makes it possible to book a table at an Oriental restaurant and order the meal in advance. Oh, Brave New World! Hail, Columbus...