Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goodgame seems to be in the majority this year. "A good time now is getting together with a colleague and transcribing a rally tape," notes Washington correspondent David Beckwith, who first boarded the bus in 1972. Since then, the traditional locker-room atmosphere on the bus has softened. Says Washington correspondent Alessandra Stanley: "Many of us 'girls' have sat in the back and listened to men compare notes on diets, aerobic exercise routines and their infants' teething problems, and watched them indignantly demand yogurt and Perrier from stewardesses vainly trying to push Bloody Marys and peanuts...
...cultural exchanges, authorities in Moscow wanted the U.S. Government to guarantee the return of visiting Soviet citizens (a request that was routinely denied). "There was none of that talk in these negotiations," says Ray Benson, a Middlebury professor and former embassy attache in Moscow, who headed the negotiations. Tuition, room and board, and a monthly living allowance of $150 are paid by the host school. The cost comes to about $25,000 per visiting student. Soviet schools will cover equivalent costs when U.S. students arrive next year...
...with relationships and with the middle class. But to call Tyler "domestic" is to make her work seem somehow less substantial, less complete. When John Updike writes about what suburban families say to each other, how modern men and women deal with everything from raising children to buying living room furniture, from adultery to taking out the garbage, we do not think that he is merely concerned with chronicling domestic life...
...festivities yesterday afternoon in the Widener Library reading room weren't for any candidate--they were for Harvard's new computer card catalog system...
...hard students in the front of thereading room, rid of their distraction, returnedto their studies