Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boys. A grand hotel for their rich friends. The bar would offer drinks like "the Caligula" or "the Vlad the Impaler." Imelda Marcos and Michelle Duvalier could meet by the pool for a "Lady Macbeth." The Big Boys could swagger around and try to seduce one another's wives. Steam baths, massages, the camaraderie of the locker room. They could shoot pigeons and get drunk, and now and then they could pretend to have one of their flunkies taken out and shot. Or better yet, the victim could just vanish, without explanation, without a trace. The good old days...
...members said that the university's decision to tear down the shanties stemmed from its fear that the divestment movement was gaining steam. They said that university's move directly followed a campus-wide referendum which revealed that more than half of the undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members supported divestment...
...this program emphasizes "more ephemeral work," said project administrator Katherine S. Mayes. Poets, dancers, musicians, a woman who works with steam, an MIT holograph artist, and a clown have all submitted work to Arts on the Line, Mayes said...
...This year won't be like last year because the movement had been losing steam. We weren't starting from a strong position. We built up slowly to April 4, and we hadn't concentrated on what we were going to do after April 4. It look us two weeks after that to get going," says Robert Weissman '88, a SASC member. "This year the planning won't just be for April 4; it will be for April. It won't only be one event, it will be a whole campaign...
...answer: it was not. The alma mater of Philosopher W.E.B. DuBois (class of 1888), among other distinguished alumni, is still alive--not kicking, not out of the red, but alive. The paint is peeling, the roofs leak and ruptured heating pipes spout plumes of steam in places that once would accommodate quiet reflection--but Fisk still functions...