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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what we need is a change in people. Some method to galvanize Americans, to melt down our passions and prejudices, remove our impurities, and re-shape us as caring men and women. First there must be something to challenge people's assurances that all is right with our country and our world. Vietnam did that on a massive scale, but what Vietnam produced was confusion, alienating people from an evil government but not replacing government policies with anything really different. We don't need confusion, though it is an intermediate step, but a new clarity, a new and hundredfold more...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Beyond El Salvador | 12/17/1981 | See Source »

...Business School Field scoreboard already collecting dust in hibernation, the season is rapidly fading into the realm of memory. It's about this time that all those treks across the river to Dillon to get changed and taped, and then out to the practice field, lose their distinctiveness and melt into one all-encompassing pilgrimage...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Memories of a Championship Season | 12/1/1981 | See Source »

...Heidelberg, on Chapel St., is the oldest bar in town, and a favorite college hang-out. The food is unspectacular, except for the steaks, which are superb. But you don't go here for the food. Grab a frosty mug of dark beer and melt back into the ancient woodwork. Beautiful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slaking a Connecticut Thirst | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...will be as if Washington and Wall Street were suspended in mid-air, their uncertainties less consequential than the outcome of the next forward pass or the next end run. The ideological differences between George Bush and Ted Kennedy will melt into a secondary realm, only to be replaced with an equally ferocious and nearly as time-honored competition. Harvard will be jeered as the Kremlin on the Charles: Yale will be lambasted as Tory Blue. A sense of unabashed partisanship will grip two academic centers of power that usually strive for balance and objectivity...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Season Begins and Ends On Saturday | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...world's most dangerous cities. Visitors are instructed not to walk anywhere at night, and to exercise great caution during the day, especially on weekends. A downtown neighborhood which contains a few leading hotels has earned the nickname "Murder Mile." Marauders prey on tourists and others and then melt into the lines for the buses to Soweto...

Author: By James Altschul, | Title: South Africa: No Sand Left in the Hour Glass | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

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