Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot display any quantitative evidence that COCA's actions have had any effect on the thoughts and discussions of Harvard students in recent weeks. Still, it is likely that there has, indeed, been an effect. The actions have provoked some discussion in the campus press. And surely not every one of the 900 students who received draft notices shrugged it off as junk mail...
...cathedral of college football, the names of legendary head coaches -- Rockne, Leahy and Parseghian -- still echo. But get ready to add a new name to the list: Holtz...
...which they are doomed to play such a minor role. For if one cares to send the very best, one flies home for Thanksgiving. Even the TV networks have never figured out a way to transform Thanksgiving into a prime-time pageant, which is why the Macy's Parade still takes place in God's own morning light...
What adds a quaint, almost innocent flavor to this bygone controversy is the outmoded notion that department stores wait patiently until the end of Thanksgiving to unveil Santa's workshop. Now, of course, four-year-olds are still gorging on Halloween candy when the Saturday-morning ads begin their incessant shilling for Christmas toys. In a nation where the mall never palls and seven-days-a-week shopping seems enshrined as a civic religion, Thanksgiving stands out as an oasis of tranquillity and a reminder of the values that once tempered America's materialism. This Thursday give thanks...
...media as a minor business news item." Part of the answer, he suggested in the Wall Street Journal, is a "media pandering to American xenophobia and latent racism." Sony chairman Akio Morita, noting the U.S. Government's World War II internment of Japanese Americans, surmised that Americans still see the Japanese as "strangers...