Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hannifin has been TIME's Washington expert on aeronautics and space from the heyday of the 1950s, when daring test pilots were attempting to fly fixed- wing aircraft into space. A longtime aviator, Hannifin was quick to apply to be the first journalist in space. Says he: "When shuttle operations resume -- and I have no doubt that they will, after the Challenger's problem is analyzed and fixed -- I want...
James N. Butler, McKay Professor of Applied Chemistry, has seen the enrollment in his class, Gen Ed 180, "Environmental Quality and Its Management," drop from more than 200 students during Gen Ed's heyday to 24 last year. Despite the drop, Butler will probably remain...
Since its heyday during the Beat Generation and the Psychedelic Sixties, poetry reading has dropped out of sight into a few scattered coffee-houses around the Boston are. As part of their continuing efforts to revive interest in the artform of the spoken word, the "Sidewalk Poets" held their second annual "Poetry in the Park" series of readings in the Boston Common last weekend...
From Archie Bunker's weekly tantrums to J.R.'s endless scheming, familiarity on TV has usually bred contentment. TV viewers are creatures of habit--or so, at least, network programmers have staunchly believed since Lucy's heyday. As the new fall season gets under way, however, that time-honored maxim is being challenged. The reason is the sudden re-emergence of a format virtually left for dead a couple of decades ago: the anthology show...
...every turn, Hav's storybook past collides with the neon present. The annual Roof Race, Europe's oddest sporting event, sends multinational Havians sprinting across the peeling ruins left by Athenian, Czarist and British occupations. Noel Coward and Nijinsky played here in Hav's heyday; Nazis hid out among its elite residents. Present-day Havians are baffling shadows. The last pretender to the Turkish caliphate, a principal shareholder in Hav TV, tries to marry Morris to his vizier. She sips coffee with a Chinese financial pirate and recognizes a bartender at the opulent casino from his days at Harry...