Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ROAD TO MECCA. South African Athol Fugard directs and stars in his masterly drama of the artist as outsider, at Washington's Kennedy Center...
...newcomers are women, and club pros see an increasing number of African Americans and Hispanics concentrating on 10-ft. putts. Golf is also appealing to a younger crowd. And it shows. Myrtle Beach, S.C., for example, has evolved from a secluded, two-course resort town into a family golfing Mecca with 49 public and ten private links. "It's the perfect sport for the 'I'm-in-control generation,' " says Binford. Nor is it so hard on the knees as tennis or jogging -- something that baby boomers have come to appreciate now that they are turning fortysomething...
...seen as a threat or a desire to be separatist. In a community of such diversity, minorities sometimes need to make associations with people of the same minority background for cultural, social, political, or whatever reason and their right to make these associations should be respected and admired. Mecca J. Nelson...
...seen as a threat or a desire to be separatist. In a community of such diversity, minorities sometimes need to make associations with people of the same minority background for cultural, social, political, or whatever reason and their right to make these associations should be respected and admired. Mecca J. Nelson...
...remember the last time the LIRR workers struck, in the late '70s. Everybody drove their cars part of the way into the city, parked and then walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan. Sales of walking shoes skyrocketed. It was like a mass pilgrimage to Yuppie Mecca...