Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MAYBE IT WAS the way President Parker, her husband Tom, and Rush enjoyed being photographed cozily eating breakfast around the president's kitchen table. Maybe it was the His and Hers T-shirts that she and Rush wore around campus and at the office. But if, as professor Camille Pagila once commented, "At Bennington, you can do it with the dogs and no one cares," then Bennington students, faculty and trustees must have had other reasons for demanding the ouster of college President Gail Thain Parker in 1976. Parker's need to explain her conflict with the Bennington community leads...
...college that, unlike Harvard, has been used to involvement by the entire community in decisions affecting it. Quoting Parker's statement that "The report is me," Iseman cites the fact that the only faculty members consulted in the preparation of the report were two part-time teachers and Rush Welter. He describes Welter, an American Civilization teacher with whom Parker had been publicly intimate for some time, as "a faculty maverick whose views had for years been contrary to those of his colleagues." Professor Paglia adds that "there was a feeling that educational policy was being made in the boudoir...
...only sweat through grueling training, but also suffer the financial woes of supporting themselves. The U.S. has developed a system in which the struggle to make the Olympic team is an individual one. It is inconsistent to expect a sudden and overwhelming sense of national unity or a rush of patriotism to induce them to support a boycott...
They stream in by the thousands lugging shopping bags and suitcases filled with silver spoons, tea sets, candle sticks, gold rings and bracelets-anything that can be sold for its precious metal value and melted down. Almost everywhere, people rush to barter away their gold and silver bullion. In London uniformed guards admit long lines of sellers one or two at a time into the precincts of Johnson Matthey & Co., metal dealers, while tough-looking street traders sidle up to impatient standees. "Are you sellin', luv?" coos one, whipping out brass scales and rolls of pound notes. On Manhattan...
...book racks are filled with volumes of confession and revenge. People rush to destroy their own privacy, possibly judging that loneliness is worse. In the past ten or twelve years, everything has tumbled out of the closet in a heap. Some homosexuals parade themselves like walking billboards, the placement of the keys and handkerchiefs in their back pockets acting as a semaphore to signal the specific secrets of their sexual tastes...