Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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College hockey remains a local phenomenon, a ritual reserved for moms and dads, for classmates and former players. Each program develops a rich, individual tradition and a devoted, knowledgable following...
...archipelago's 41,615 villages. Although the Philippine government says the figure is only 5%, it concedes that Communist insurgents now operate in 60 of the country's 74 provinces. They are a strong presence throughout the central island of Negros and in most of resource-rich Mindanao. Estimates of regular N.P.A. troop strength range from the Philippine military's count of 12,500 to Washington's 16,500 and the Communists' own claim of 20,000. Although the 230,000-strong Philippine armed forces enjoy an overwhelming numerical edge, their resources are stretched thin as they attempt to combat...
...comedy depicted a world obsessed with money, manners, fashion and family tree, severe in its standards of social acceptability and brutal in its treatment of those deemed unfit. Bond's adaptation of the genre retains its rounded invective and withering humor. The wicked lord, pondering the corpse of his rich, social-climbing bride, decides to prop her up at the table: "Stretched out on the floor could only encourage the lowest of surmises." His equally malicious mother, listening to the plea on bended knee of the duped servant's wife, says imperiously, "Get up, child. A thing is not made...
...Hands Across America features Hands Co-Chairs Bill Cosby and Lily Tomlin, a host of impoverished children and the song We Are the World. NBC contributed the air time. Said NBC Sports Executive Producer Michael Weisman: "The Super Bowl is America's undeclared holiday, and whether you're rich or poor, everybody comes together. Hands Across America is trying to create the same feeling...
...plurality" that Mr. Grossman invokes as a Harvard virtue, even as he urges reducing it by eliminating the Clubs.) Though Chicago was more than Harvard's match in openness to differing ideas, it seemed to me culturally homogeneous. I've perceived imperial Harvard as more at ease; old enough, rich enough, secure enough--able, somehow--to celebrate a variety of lifestyles. The easy acceptance, by the community, of widely differing styles has served to enhance all of them; people may be and do, as well as think, very different things and still be valued in this world. In too many...