Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which has just completed major renovations as part of a more than two-year, $120 million project at the Radcliffe Quad. Cabot's previous masters, Myra A. Mayman, director of the Office for the Arts, and Alexander A. Bernhard, announced last February they would not renew their appointment this summer for personal reasons...
...will replace English Lecturer and Senior TutorElizabeth N. Goodenough at Currier. Saunders was anon-resident tutor at North in the late 1970s. AtEliot, Donald Duncan takes over from StephenSzaraz '83. Duncan served as Eliot's senior tutorin the late 1960s for a short period and hasworked with Harvard's summer school since then...
...Daley Thompson, Britain's two-time Olympic decathlon champion. "Does he know you're coming?" asked the agent, pointing out Thompson's notorious avoidance of the press. "He doesn't give interviews, you know." He did to Callahan, and the result is part of our special section on the Summer Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul...
Seoul, in short, is a city of "verys," a place of extremes that demands and enforces toughness. In winter it is bitingly cold, with winds blowing down from Siberia; in summer, so hot that some choose to sleep in the streets. Simply negotiating the city is a task that is not for the faint of body. To cross busy roads, pedestrians must clamber up overpasses or, more frequently, descend into underground mazes that seethe with shops and exits. Thus a walk down three city blocks can become a ten-minute expedition that involves 92 steps down and 88 steps...
...summer that the earth struck back. Amid an unnerving global heat wave, scientists took the planet's temperature and debated whether the greenhouse effect had already begun. At the beach, syringes replaced seashells. The wholesale destruction of forests in northern India and Nepal helped spawn a tragic flood in Bangladesh. Sturgeon were infected by toxic wastes in the Soviet Union, threatening the caviar supply. And, belatedly, the environment returned as a compelling political issue...