Word: summering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, Roger Ailes, Bush's campaign media consultant who is generally credited with the vice president's comeback in the summer, said that he saw no serious problems with the campaign...
When President Reagan chose Lauro Cavazos to replace William Bennett as Secretary of Education last summer, Washington pundits dismissed the move as a political maneuver. A sixth-generation Texan and a highly visible Hispanic American, Cavazos seemed tailor-made to help Republican presidential nominee George Bush woo the Hispanic vote in the candidate's electorally rich adopted home state. Last week, when President-elect Bush announced that he would retain Cavazos as head of the department, some educators made similar remarks. "It was an easy decision for Bush," says Donna Shalala, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison...
...anymore. For many Americans, each summer holiday reaffirms that traveling during peak season is increasingly a flawed experience. Too often it means paying more and seeing less, fighting crowds and missing any sense of a country's way of life. Having sweltered through Athens in August and endured Britain's roads in July, tourists are finally realizing why the first mark of seasoned travelers is the season in which they travel...
...precisely because so much of the tourist industry slows down during the winter that so many travelers are attracted to the off-season. The low season is a blessed chance to eavesdrop on real life in a spirit of calm and privacy. Even the cities lose their summer affectations. "People get a better feel for Parisian life," says Nicole Roques-Lagier, press attache for the Paris Tourist Office. "They see people going about their daily business, much more so than in the summer, when the French themselves are on vacation." It is easier to get a table in a restaurant...
...those in search of festivity, the off-season is one long calendar of celebrations. There are rituals of planting and harvesting, the autumn wine festivals in Burgundy, the pre-Lenten carnivals of Venice and Portugal, the Vienna winter balls. In most countries, while summer is reserved for rest and recreation, the main cultural and social season runs from fall to spring. Vienna's opera and symphony seasons open with daily performances in September and last until June, while La Scala in Milan runs from December through June. The London theater season offers some of its freshest performances and premieres...