Word: helene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before I even get a chance to order at the bar I spot Helen Metros, the joint's waitress. I apologize for interrupting her at work and ask her if she has a minute to answer some questions about Charlie's. But by the time I finish the sentence she's already plopped herself down on the stool next to mine--she's ready to talk...
Amey A. DeFriez '49, former chair of Radcliffe College's Board of Trustees, has garnered the Radcliffe's highest honor for volunteer service. She will receive the Helen Homans Gilbert Award for Distinguished Volunteer Service at a dinner ceremony on Sunday night at the Cronkhite Graduate Studies Center in Cambridge...
...time the Beats and a lively (but very superficial) national "Zen fad" began to fade from national prominence, two more groups of Buddhists had converged with two more groups of seekers. Helen Tworkov, editor of the influential Buddhist quarterly Tricycle, says a generation explored Buddhism "out of an enormous sense of shame" over the Vietnam War and its images of monks setting themselves afire in protest. Others were in search of enlightenment that lasted longer than a tab of acid. Their quests seemed to end in Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a brilliant apostle of Vajrayana and part of the Tibetan diaspora...
...Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia created E to evoke the perfume of her grandmother Grand Duchess Helen of Russia. This "scent once known only to nobility" is now available to commoners--on the QVC home-shopping network...
...Helen Miramontes wants a doctor to fill a hypodermic needle with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and inject it into her blood. No, the 66-year-old grandmother and professor of nursing is not crazy. She is part of a group of 50 doctors, nurses and health advocates who are willing to give their bodies to science to help test whether a live but genetically weakened strain of the aids virus is safe enough to be used as a vaccine...