Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seoul to compete in the eighth Paralympics Games for handicapped athletes. And the disabled are also entering competitions alongside the able-bodied. This month's New York City Marathon attracted some 100 handicapped racers. Says Achilles founder Dick Traum, 48, an amputee: "It's fun to do things that seem to be impossible...
...Metropolitan Opera Cookbook (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $30), edited by Jules Bond, features recipes from the stars of the great opera house. At first glance, it would seem a gimmicky celebrity come-on, short on substance. Not so. Opera folk tend to love food, and since they hail from so many countries, the collection is rich and varied. Like many Met productions, the book is visually gorgeous; in fact, it is too pretty to cook by. It would be nice to have a recipes-only version for the kitchen. With luck it would still include Sherill Milne's Hungarian goulash soup...
Perhaps Newsweek or Time will pick up on this and other surveys showing similar trends towards careers in academia and public-service, and suddenly proclaim that our generation has found its way. Having become repulsed by Ivan Boesky and all he represents, our generation would seem to be as socially and politically active as it should be. Future professors of social history may even point to the response to the College survey as indicating that Harvard students were somehow in the "vanguard" of a broader movement towards more socially-productive careers than selling junk bonds...
...doesn't seem like an unfair influence," O'Neill contends...
...remembering Kennedy on the day he was slain, rather than on the anniversary of his birth, his memory becomes jaundiced. No matter how much attention is paid to his achievements in public life, these accomplishments seem less significant when viewed in the ominous shadow of his assasination. It is like watching a play of his life with a chorus sitting in the rear of the stage whispering "if only he had lived, if only he had lived..." Unfortunately, Kennedy's death, now a national obsession, has become the most memorable accomplishment of his life...