Word: halle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thick with the aroma of Rachel Sandwiches--no doubt prepared at a time when this University was young--when I walked into my dining hall the other day. Since the Rachel is not my favorite Harvard repast, I knew I would have to look for some other dish to satiate myself...
Around mid-January, every conversation in the dining hall, in the Widener stacks or on the streets would turn to theses. The phenomenon could best be called the senior version of the freshman what'syournamewhereareyoufromwhatdormareyou in dialogue. It goes along these lines...
...connoisseurs of roughhouse local politics, there is no place like Chicago and no name like that of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Last week it appeared that the fabled boss's firstborn son might be the next occupant of the office in city hall from which hizzoner presided for 21 years. In a Democratic primary notable for its racially polarized voting, Cook County State's Attorney Richard M. Daley defeated Eugene Sawyer, a black who took over as mayor 16 months ago, after the death of Harold Washington, Chicago's first black chief executive. Daley...
...inarticulate that he was dubbed the "Mumblin' Mayor," Sawyer made a few creditable appointments. But he also proved indecisive, delaying for a full week the firing of a subordinate who had made blatantly anti-Semitic speeches. Sawyer was reduced to claiming that he had accepted the keys to city hall in order to achieve gains for blacks. "Had I not taken those keys," declared Sawyer, "the ethnic rainbow we see would not be there. I'm going to keep the keys to keep the dream alive...
Robeson doubled his fists, abandoned his studies and entered the concert hall by the stage door. His rich interpretations of spirituals rapidly brought him to London in 1930 as Othello and to Hollywood five years later in Show Boat. But the rewards could never assuage the early injuries...