Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uncertain what the long-term health effects of the gas will be on people in the region. Chin's fellow villager, Wambong, for instance, has yet to recover feeling on one side of his body. Most of the survivors, however, seem to be in fairly good condition. Despite the fact that there are lingering respiratory problems, doctors say the worst is over. Still, secondary infections are anticipated. Indeed, by week's end one Israeli medic had treated at least 50 cases of pneumonia, and more were expected to follow...
...villages still seem haunted by the ghostly reminders of what used to be. Children's toys and clothes litter the huts, bicycles lean carelessly against back walls, stew cakes in pots, crumpled bed sheets still bear the impress of daily life. But in the now deserted streets, no men chatter. No women call to their children. No chickens squawk. No insects buzz. "The silence is so deep," whispers a visitor to a relief worker. "I try not to listen," the medic responds. Yet it is all but impossible not to hear the echoes of the tragedy...
...university seem not significantly diminished by such academic brush fires. Notre Dame's Hesburgh attributes Harvard's continuing eminence in part to the strength of Bok's reign. "He certainly has been critical of his own institution," says Hesburgh, "which you can afford to be when you're that good." Mary Patterson McPherson, president of Bryn Mawr, deplores the 1- to-20 ratio of women on Harvard's tenured faculty after a decade of coeducation ("Just deciding to educate girls ain't coeducation in my view," she snaps). Nevertheless, she admires Bok's administrative style. "He's managed to give...
...reasons given by the chosen few for going to Cambridge, at either the undergraduate or graduate level, seem to vary. Freshman Anh Hguyen-Huynh, a Vietnamese now living in Cleveland, says he was drawn by the mystique: "It is something in the air, something in the spirit of the place." M.B.A. Wendy Roylo Hee, a regional planner in her native Honolulu, picked Harvard "because it was tough. I felt like I was being prepared for whatever was out there." Sarah Keller, Ph.D. '79, now teaching anthropology at Eastern Washington University, agrees that the Cambridge mystique remains as powerful as ever...
...little and scattered is what many educators feel Harvard's core provides. The University of Massachusetts' Duffey describes its effect on learning as modest. Harvard, he says, does not "seem any closer to making judgments about the qualities of an educated mind." Others note that with the core, a student may graduate from Harvard without having read a word of Shakespeare, the Bible or the U.S. Constitution...