Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ERIC CLAPTON: 461 OCEAN BOULEVARD (RSO). Old Slowhand can still raise up a musical inferno, though now he leans more to swinging blues...
...WORLD OF GEORGE WASHINGTON by Richard M. Ketchum. 275 pages. American Heritage. $25. "I am embarked on a wide Ocean, boundless in its prospect and from whence, perhaps, no safe harbour is to be found." The message has a contemporary ring just now, but its words were offered in June 1775 by George Washington after he agreed to become the first commander in chief of the new Continental Army. With textblocks and many illustrations, plus graceful historical essays, Editor and Popular Historian Richard Ketchum creates a sound and extraordinarily detailed portrait of the man and his times during the years...
...affairs"? All this time I thought it involved a few minor things like mutual trust honesty and the ability to be a whole enough person to love someone without choking him off from his own potential. Defining open marriage with that stupid, glib little phrase is like defining the ocean as a can of tuna fish...
Athanasios Hadzilacos '75, however, warns that the radical rhetoric of Greeks who come to the United States for an education can be trusted no more than the promises of corporations that cross the ocean in the other direction. Hadzilacos is one of the only genuinely-middle-class Greeks at Harvard. He came from Volos, a small town 200 miles up the east coast of Greece from Athens...
Some new approaches promise help. As part of a multinational scientific program called NORPAX (North Pacific Experiment), Meteorologist Jerome Namias of Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been investigating unexplained links between ocean temperatures and weather. He has found, for instance, that the formation of hot and cold patches in specific parts of the Pacific appears to be followed by colder-than-normal winters in the Eastern U.S. and warmer-than-normal winters in the West. If enough patterns of that kind can be found, says Namias, they could tip off long-range trends...