Word: halcyons
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...going somewhere else. Even if my destination is only a concert or a friend’s barbeque party, the trip is pregnant with hope that the event, or some incident along the way, will make the trek worth my while and will deliver me from the halcyon days of summer, validating this three-month break from classes that is fast coming to a close.Not that I haven’t had a fantastic summer in Cambridge and The Crimson’s usually-air-conditioned offices. In fact, the bus rides to Beantown have been just as promising...
...same name, which later became one of the premier journals of hip hop culture: “The Source.” Darius P. Felton ’08 and Sam D. G. Jacoby ’08, the department’s current directors, recall the halcyon days of Harvard’s hip-hop prominence: “‘The Dark Side’ was a very vibrant presence at Harvard,” Jacoby says. “WHRB has old station IDs recorded by N.W.A.-era Dr. Dre, De La Soul, and other...
...numbers of immigrants from Southeast Asia and Africa over the past decade into a thriving multicultural society. Smart economic management, fueled by eight successive federal budget surpluses, has given this otherwise modest power an influential voice at the G-8 and international institutions like the United Nations. But those halcyon days are ending. Canada is losing ground - and influence - to competitors overseas, and some worry that the country's safe, even smug society could fall prey to the same ethnic tensions that afflict Europe and the U.S. Meanwhile, the lingering threat of secession from the French-speaking province of Quebec...
...fratricidal miseries were left to writers (Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane) to explore, and to photographers. But painting served as a way of oblivion--of reconstructing an idealized innocence. Thus, as Dr. Cooper points out, Homer's 1870s watercolors of farm children and bucolic courtships try to memorialize the halcyon days of the 1850s; the children gazing raptly at the blue horizon in Three Boys On The Shore, their backs forming a shallow arch, in a sense are this lost America. None of this prevented Homer's contemporaries from seeing such works as unvarnished and in some ways disagreeable truth. "Barbarously...
...those halcyon days are over. Cable, VCRs and independent stations are steadily eroding the networks' share of the TV audience, and that erosion is especially acute in the summer. Just 35.4% of the nation's TV viewers were watching network programming on a typical evening in the summer of 1984, down from 36.6% in '83 and 37.4% in '82. Nielsen figures for this June and July show the decline is continuing. Fearing that reruns are driving viewers away, the networks this summer are launching an unprecedented wave of new programming. Eight series are debuting for limited runs of five...