Word: icumen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enter Rush Welter, 52. A wiry, white-haired American civilization professor, Welter is, at first, Gail's chief opponent on the faculty. He puns about her in Old English, lamenting that "A summa is icumen in," but he is unimpressed with her scholarship, and he is furious at her for getting an affirmative action resolution to hire women passed. They confer often, he giving her a tutorial on the politics of the place; then their intellectual flirtation turns into an affair. They teach a course together. When the students read Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Parker and Welter...
...American flag before the grandstand* and matched strength with the men of a number of other countries by holding the flag staff at arm's length during much of the march. After the West Germans, as host team, closed the parade, 3,200 Munich schoolchildren sang Sumer Is Icumen In, a far cry from the 1936 Horst Wessel Lied. The traditional doves were released, the Olympic flame was lit by a torch relayed from Olympia in Greece by 5,976 runners, and West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated proceedings with the regulatory 14-word statement: "I declare open...