Word: rusticating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American establishment is entitled to celebrate itself, if ever a baby has come a long way from rustic origins, it is Harvard University. Despite the continuing challenge from such superb schools as Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard, under its patrician president Derek Bok, remains the gauge against which others are measured. As the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame, puts it, Harvard is "the standard bearer and symbol of excellence...
...dinner and are whisked off to Neiman-Marcus for an afternoon's shopping. At the other extreme is the bare-bones Wooden Door in Lake Geneva, Wis. Guests pay as little as $365 for five days and bring their own sheets and towels. "It's not primitive. It's rustic," declares Co-Founder Jill Adzia. "Primitive is sleeping in the woods without any indoor plumbing." California's spas are leaders in changing the image of fat farm to fitness | farm, and three in that state demonstrate the similarities and diversities: The Golden Door, which has been in business...
...hard to describe the rustic quality of Cambridge in those days," says Kaczynski, who moved three years ago back into the 118-year-old house her grandfather purchased just after the Civil...
...civilized but still adventurous alternative, long pursued in the Alps and in Scandinavia, is catching on in the U.S. Skiers trek across the snow for several days, covering a few miles a day and sleeping overnight in huts and tents high in the mountains. Accommodations range from the rustic to the comfortable, complete with cocktails and elaborate meals. Though hut-to-hut skiing can be found throughout the northern U.S., it is most popular in the West. "The huts are really in vogue," says Dick Jackson, head of a ski-tour company in Aspen, Colo. "You get the tough uphill...
...First Lady has always been a good sport about the rustic pleasures of Rancho del Cielo, but she has been unable to conceal her preference for palling about with old chums like Socialite Betsy Bloomingdale in more citified surroundings. Last week Nancy got a chance to sample the glitzy social whirl of Beverly Hills when the Reagans came down off the mountain for a three-day sojourn in lotus land. They hobnobbed at dinner parties with old Hollywood cronies like Jimmy Stewart, and ate chicken with three of their children (Maureen was in Sacramento) in a $3,000a-night presidential...