Word: parson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asking for control of the Foundation, only for the legitimate input the Presidential committee recommended. It is hoped that the entire Harvard community, students, alumni, faculty and administration, will take a special interest in the Foundation and help redirect an organization that has gone awry. Darryl A. Parson Kenneth W. Johnson
...adds a new and colorful twist to "Creatures of Levania" (Kepler's dreamy inhabitants of the Moon which he claims. "By combining nature with art,... can take refuge at the bottom of the deep waters.") The compressed, off-beat bass and high, clipped synthesizer sound like portions of Alan Parson's robot music, but the song is infused with Steamroller-style life through the flowing keyboard lead, which sounds like a space-aged vibraphone played by a master planist (a strange coincidence, as the keyboardist is Jackson Berkey, Juliard graduate and Baldwin grand piano champion...
...canonization ensued. The television networks focused their gaze on the story almost continuously from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Arlington National Cemetery, as if in professional tribute to the first President who understood the medium and performed perfectly in it. In sanctifying his memory, videotape became Kennedy's Parson Weems. The reality of what the nation had lost was preserved with unprecedented, unthinkable vividness: his holographic ghost moving and talking inside every television set, that American dreamboat campaigning through the primaries among leaping and squealing adolescent girls, the snow-dazzled Inaugural ceremony, the wonderfully witty press conferences replayed endlessly...
...exuberant festivities suited a man who has long entertained great expectations. The son of a country parson in South Australia, Hawke was 15 when he first boasted that he would one day become Prime Minister. Throughout a long and highly visible career, he has enjoyed the image of an accomplished but eminently human character: in his past are both a Rhodes scholarship and a drinking problem. At Oxford he wrote a thesis on Australian labor relations and swaggered into the Guinness Book of World Records by gulping down 2½ pints of beer in 12 seconds...
...decision on whether or not to play the game will be made sometime this morning, after Coach Alex Nahigian and others survey the field here, and the Northeastern people check out the half-synthetic, half-real turf at Parson's Field. If they play, the first game should start at 1 p.m., at, of course, a location yet to be determined...