Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swimming Coach Joe Bernal has seven experienced swimmers joining his squad: backstroker Roland Wagner, the Swiss national champion; Olympic qualifier Scott Hoy from Australia; sprinters Keith Kaplan of Mattapan, N.J., and Bob Morrison of Portland, Ind.; Paul Ryder, an all-around swimmer from Servana Park, Md.; distance swimmer Mike Caverly of Lacadia, Ca.; and Robert Perkins, a backstroker from Middlebrook...
Some dioceses have already taken action. After a 1983 scandal involving Father Thomas Laughlin, the Portland archdiocese reminded its personnel of state laws requiring that signs of suspected child abuse be reported. The archdiocese also set up a special panel to evaluate complaints. According to guidelines issued last month for all New Jersey dioceses, reports of abuse are to be referred immediately to state authorities and diocesan officials, an accused priest is to be removed from contact with children until the case is cleared up, and families and children are to be offered church counseling...
Author and Columbia Teachers College Professor DIANE RAVITCH at Reed College in Portland: "You have just completed what is widely regarded as an elite education, not because only an elite deserves a liberal education or can benefit by a liberal education, but because fewer and fewer American students are actually receiving an education of comparable quality and breadth. A liberal education is founded on the premise that knowledge is power and that ideas move the world. Or, this idea is expressed in what is known as the Law of Selective Advancement (a relative of Murphy's Law): 'The person...
George Ward and his wife Vera arrive outside the White House. They are escorted through three different holding rooms until they are standing at the President's door. Ward, now a peppy Portland grandfather, has never seen anything like this, even in his Hollywood years. The doors open. Some set. Across the room is Dutch Reagan under his undimmed 150-watt smile. He strides up to the Wards, puts his arms around Vera, looks at George and says, "Can you believe it has been 48 years since I walked into your office? It's a little different now. See what...
...impossible to miss Irving's message, but his method of conveying it is ingenious in the extreme. The tale begins in the 1880s, when Wilbur Larch graduates from Bowdoin College in Maine. As a present his father buys the young man a night with a Portland prostitute. Larch gains from this experience a sense of shame, a case of gonorrhea and the conviction that he can do very nicely without any more sex in the future. During his years at Harvard Medical School, Larch develops a fondness for sniffing ether and a knowledge of the appalling problems that unwanted pregnancies...