Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN I came home one summer, I wandered by the baby contest that was being held at the Band-shell, my town's coquina-rock version of the Hollywood Bowl by the Atlantic Ocean. There, costumed boys and girls two and three years old were given their first taste of the footlights, the heady liquor of performing for an audience. The three winners in the boys' division that year were dressed as an Indian, a cowboy, and the last wore a minutely detailed copy of a Special Forces uniform. A sweating man in tuxedo lined the three up in front...
Trickles of Relief. Unprotected and overpopulated, the region is a disaster waiting to happen. And disaster has struck repeatedly. An 1876 cyclone killed 200,000 in the Bay of Bengal, and no fewer than eight major cyclones hit the region in the 1960s. The Indian Ocean's cyclones-the equivalent of the Atlantic's hurricanes and the Pacific's typhoons-are gigantic tropical storms that act like outsize rotary engines, sucking up and circulating the moist air that hangs over the balmy waters of the Bay of Bengal. The heat energy released in this process energizes...
...Pacific has its typhoons, the Atlantic its hurricanes and the Indian Ocean its cyclones. Last week one of the deadliest cyclones in history battered the Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan with 150-m.p.h. winds and a 20-ft. tidal wave...
...Mather House tower was the one he had chosen-if, in fact, he was aware that the only windows which looked out on Harvard and the Charles were in the bathrooms. "Oh, yes," he said, "I don't believe in the Atlantic City 'I-can-see-the-ocean!' school of windows." He said he felt that the view of Peabody Terrace, The Riverside Press, and The Carter's Ink factory was "more interesting." It was also Carlhain's decision to put students' closets outside of their rooms, to make the bedrooms especially dark-"I see a student's room...
...devotion to his wife was and is complete. They share a love of the land, the ocean and particularly the sky, and an eloquence in describing their feelings about such things: "At night when I stand on the beach and look at the stars, I wonder why man describes as progress the science which screens such beauty from his life...