Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Football has turned into a machine dream for most of us. It is a game now played at its most domineering level by impossibly large, improbably rich young men on Sunday afternoons. There may be a chill in the air of a domed stadium, but it derives from the air conditioning and it does not carry the scent of burning leaves. The grass may be greener indoors, but for that we have to thank some faceless chemical conglomerate, not Pops the groundkeeper. And television somehow seems to dehumanize the skills of the players; it turns them into the A-Team...
...reception was tepid. The Pope's meeting with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi lasted just 20 minutes. Indian officials released little information about the meeting, which some observers interpreted as evidence that the government aimed to downplay the Pope's trip. John Paul's multireligious gathering at the Indira Gandhi stadium produced such lengthy oratory that by the time the Pope spoke, hundreds had already gone home...
...divestment, or mentioned the council's none-too-clear mandate to shape campus debate of important issues. They did not offer new visions of student government at Harvard. Offutt called the week-long effort to unseat him "bickering," and, among other things, said he would like to see Harvard Stadium used for rock concerts. Lane, who lost the election, also steered clear of anything resembling a larger question of student government. Her campaign statement focused on the need to heal rifts within the council...
...know the lessons of the past few weeks were not lost on our representatives if we hear a lot less about the council as we watch the Yard become a more hospitable place for the disabled, get better care at University Health Services and listen to music in Harvard stadium. Those are the changes Offutt said he'd work to bring about...
...April 1961, when a new young President was getting ready to prove what a tough guy he was at Cuba's Bay of Pigs. Adding insult to injury, the news began to trickle out when John Kennedy had just tossed the first baseball of the season in Griffith Stadium, and he was eating a good old American hot dog. In the perverse ways of a frontier, the discouraging news would goad Kennedy and the country to achievements beyond their dreams...