Word: halcyons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Those halcyon days of my sophomore year, replete with plastic gallon bottles of Cossack gin in the Junior Common Room, will soon go the way of Lobster Night, House pride, and Allston residents. In their stead, undergrads will get long nights of nursing Natty Ice and making awkward small talk with creepy graduate students—euphemistically styled “Beverage Authorization Teams”—who will soon be a mandatory part of every tea social on campus...
...vision required not only to be president, but to fundamentally alter the way our broken political system functions” and a singular “desire to see dramatic change in the political system.” Brimming with nostalgia for the 1970s, those halcyon years for campus radicals, The Crimson can only view the political landscape through rose-colored glasses...
There was once a brilliantly happy time in my life: the halcyon days before my thesis. In those days I wore makeup and tried to get people to go to absinthe bars. Now I watch old Britney Spears videos and cry in the library at 2 a .m. I am wretchedly altered, I must admit. If I had an engagement to a sailor who returned after years at sea and saw me now, he would probably say the same. I ritualistically avoid public places. I guzzle three cups of coffee a day. My paleness could inspire 16th-century poetry...
...More than 30 years later, some of those dive bums have grown up to become full-fledged coral ecologists, and what they are seeing today is probably making them long for the halcyon days of the '60s. Rising ocean temperatures, compounded by man-made factors like pollution and overfishing, have been catastrophic for the earth's coral. "I grew up diving and snorkeling all over the world," says Gregor Hodgson, executive director of the coral monitoring organization Reef Check Foundation. "Those reefs are all gone...
More than 30 years later, some of those dive bums have grown up to become full-fledged coral ecologists, and what they are seeing today is probably making them long for the halcyon days of the '60s. Rising ocean temperatures, compounded by other man-made factors, like pollution and overfishing, have been catastrophic for the earth's coral. "I grew up diving and snorkeling all over the world," says Gregor Hodgson, executive director of the coral monitoring organization Reef Check Foundation. "Those reefs are all gone...