Word: summering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...metaphysics of the possibilities can flare and darken. The Holocaust and other catastrophes of the 20th century invite the term post-apocalyptic. But a world veering toward the 21st century sometimes has an edgy intuition that it is "pre-apocalyptic." Last summer Francis Fukuyama, a State Department planner, resolved the matter peacefully. He published an article proclaiming the "end of history," a result of the worldwide triumph of Western liberal democracy. Hence this is the posthistoric age, a fourth dimension in which the human pageant terminates in a fuzz of meaningless well-being. Intellectuals sometimes nurture a spectacular narcissism about...
They took. That summer he captured his first tournament, and he went on to win the Michigan high school tennis championship. He also excelled in other sports. He was quarterback on the Monroe High football team, captain of the basketball team and city badminton champion to boot...
...raise car prices and strain technical resources. The companies argued that auto exhaust is already 96% cleaner than it was before pollution-control measures were introduced two decades ago. Noting that the House limits would be tougher than those President Bush put forward in his clean-air package last summer, General Motors President Robert Stempel asserted, "For our business it would be extremely tough. It went further than the President proposed, and we're deciding how to handle...
...goes as expected, it should be a Crimson-Mountaineer showdown in the finals on Sunday. Perennial league power West Virginia boasts the top-ranked player in the East, Paul Mancini, but Harvard's Brown notched a victory over him in tournament play over the summer...
Baltimore's position has been supported by some of the most influential talking heads in the scientific community. Stephen Jay Gould, professor of geology at Harvard, wrote this summer, "Fraud is a pathology...Error, on the other hand, falls into the category of unavoidable side consequences to commendable activity...