Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some hint of impending trouble, they are still unable to predict eruptions with any accuracy. As a result, they concentrate on trying to minimize damage once the lava flows. Belgian Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff, whose asbestos-suited sorties into fuming craters round the globe have earned him the sobriquet "The Inferno Detective," has suggested bombing Etna to test methods for diverting the lava flow from villages. The Italians shrugged off the idea. It could raise a Solomonic question: Whose land should be spared and whose should be ruined...
Vellucci said that John Harvard was not "half the scholar Dante was," and he proposed that Harvard University he renamed "Dante's Inferno...
...geodesic, erratic building, which finally opened to the public after her death in 1924, is composed of antique fragments imported from Italy (consisting of balustrades, columns, Gothic windows), of paintings (many Italian masterpieces selected by Harvard's most famous art student, Bernard Berenson) and of manuscripts (from Dante's Inferno to Keats's poetry). She took an interest in young musicians as well as their music, giving aspiring players a chance to perform private concerts before their New York debuts...
...order to gain admission the applicant is asked, among other things, the relationship of Shakespeare to Othello, Dante to the Inferno, Brahms to music, and Whitman to poetry. He must understand such words as debutante and modiste, know that Dali is a painter and verity is the opposite of myth. Only after having established such credentials is a man judged to be qualified under the union rules to become an apprentice steam fitter in New York. In the past, the test has weeded out 66% of the nonwhite applicants and only 18% of the whites-a fairly effective method, according...
...General Education is now going out of favor. The emphasis on science following the first. Sputnik was the first blow to the idea that the well-educated man is one who has read the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Inferno. In 1966, Daniel Bell, Professor of Sociology, issued a critical re-appraisal of the Gen Ed concept, in a study commissioned by Columbia University, which was redesigning its General Education program. Since then, Gen Ed has become an increasingly unpopular idea, subjected to more and more criticism of its basic philosophy...