Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...return to the grimly comfortable and familiar surroundings of my hometown. It is not a unique force, for students from Iowa, Montana, or Manhattan feel the came pull. But the force that pulls me is wrapped up with an inexorable sense of peculiar history and culture. Some ghosts haunt me from a tiny cemetery in Alamance County, North Carolina, others issue from the acres of timber land that my family owns in Northern Louisiana or from my family's tobacco farm--of which I will inherit one-twentieth someday. It is land whose history is that of a great grandfather...
With the introduction of the housing system in 1930, the Harvard Union became the Freshmen Union--a haunt for still wet-behind-the-ears Yardlings. The Union was to be for the freshmen what each of the houses are for the Upperclassmen--a place to eat, socialize, and kick back...
...more subversive than a catering service, and as such it fit the age of Reagan nicely. But the Warhol who will survive, the artist of authentic inspiration, died when he was shot 19 years ago, not last week. And that artist, in his tragic concision and awful openness, will haunt us for some time...
...lack of depth continues to haunt the Crimson, as the squad was forced to wrestle a number of injured starters against Princeton as well as surrender an automatic six points when 134-1b. Tri-Captain Jeff Clark had to forfeit his match with a bad ankle...
Ultimately it is Reagan's campaign style that has come back to haunt him. After choosing to emphasize image over issues in the 1984 and 1986 elections, the president lacks a policy mandate. Americans have got what they voted for; a president with a successful image and a less successful ability to provide solutions to the issues...