Word: hula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college 15 years before the storm, just as some students today long for the activism and campus unrest their older brothers and sisters experienced while in college. In the early '50s the Korean War anb the battle against American Communists shared the headlines with phone booth-stuffing contests and hula-hoop exhibitions; at Radcliffe the students thought more of the latter than of the former. Though the military draft made headlines and Sen. Joseph MacCarthy (D-Wisc.) sought to label John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History a "red" in January 1954, Radcliffe students of the early '50s conducted...
Maui's magic is as potent as ever, except that today he casts his net at the malihinis, the strangers from all over who swarm to his Valley Island by the thousands, bearing millions. They do not come to Maui for the Don Ho-hula-grass skirt-sarong-muumuu-mai tai-lei-and-luau scenario that, in mainlanders' eyes at least, has become to Hawaii what Mickey Mouse is to Disney World or the one-armed bandit to Las Vegas. They come for some of the world's most spectacular scenery and a variety of activities unmatched...
...Republic sounds terrific that way. Many other chants have their island-English versions, to wit: The Twelve Days of Christmas, in which "my tutu [grannie] give to me one mynah bird in one papaya tree, two coconut, three dried squid, four flower lei, five fat pig, six hula lesson, seven shrimp as wimming, eight ukulele, nine pound of poi, ten can of beer, eleven missionary and twelve television...
...evening nightlight was clearly the tribute the Hawaiian club paid to its native state. From the club's opening "ALOHA" to the warrior dance to the final hula, the audience watched spellbound. After it ended, everyone joined in a heart-warming, if stomach-turning, rendition of the Samoan National Anthem...
...verbal nuances. Reporters and columnists working for the strike-born papers seem less impressive than usual. Can it be that the role of editors in making news judgments is more crucial than writers like to admit? Or perhaps, on interim papers, reporters are like football players in a postseason Hula Bowl...