Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to think of myself as a tall oak tree progressing in a long and inexorable line toward the sun. I had important goals in my life, goals which gave me direction and which I hoped someday to reach. I could look down from my lofty height at the stages beyond which I had progressed. I could also look over at my friends, each with different interests, but each pursuing their individual goals along lines similar...
Among the areas worst hit by the hurricane were Conant Hall, one of the chemistry laboratories on Kirkland St., where a falling tree shattered two large plate-glass windows, and the Yard, where a half-dozen massive oak trees toppled. (See story, page...
...home-video sales. A few films, like Crimes of Passion, have been re-edited for home video to restore racy or violent footage cut for the theatrical release. Some VCR owners actually prefer watching offbeat or "difficult" films on video rather than at the theater. Dianne Ghertner, of Oak Park, Ill., says she prefers to see most movies on the big screen, but enjoyed Louis Malle's critically acclaimed My Dinner with Andre at home because she could digest the two-character talkathon in small doses...
...secular humanism. The religious right leads in agitating to restore prayer to the classroom (a cause favored by 69% of Americans, according to Gallup) and in seeking to censor school libraries and textbooks. Discussion of abortion in a high school text is the cause of protest in towns like Oak Hills, Ohio. Under attack in Madison, W. Va., and Peoria, Ill., are books of sexual counsel, including Changing Bodies, Changing Lives and A Way of Love, A Way of Life, as well as such popular Judy Blume novels for teenagers as Forever and Deenie. In Buffalo, the Protestant right...
FOOTNOTE: *The yellow ribbon was a symbol of longing for the return of the American hostages taken by Iran in 1979. It comes from Tony Orlando's 1973 hit pop tune, Tie a Yellow Ribbon (Round the Old Oak Tree), based on a story about the homecoming of a Civil War soldier from prison...