Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mayor's foes did not buy the package, however. All day Friday, bankers, businessmen, economic consultants, the council and the mayor held meetings to try to find a compromise that would stave off default. As failure seemed imminent, Forbes offered a soothing prediction: "Come Saturday morning, the sun is going to shine, or it is going to snow." But as the city's credit rating plummets and outright bankruptcy looms, drastic cutbacks in all city services seem inevitable. Or, as Kucinich so aptly put it when a midnight deadline passed: "There will be six months of chaos for this...
...certainly looked like an authentic election campaign in an emerging African nation. Buses adorned with blue and white balloons labored up and down the main street of Windhoek, the sun-swept territorial capital, loudspeakers blaring "Vote! Vote! Vote!" Mobile polls were transported to practically every village in Namibia, the resource-rich, population-poor (about 1 million) stretch of desert known as South West Africa that South Africa's white regime has ruled as a protectorate since 1920. Yet the result, reports TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, was about as real as the mirages of the Kalahari sands that stretch...
Keith Jarrett: Sun Bear Concerts (ECM/Warners). Improvised fantasies by the soaring lyricist of the jazz piano. A ten-record set, beautiful and exacting and a touch toplofty by turns, stunningly pack aged to grace the coffee table while the records do their duty on the turntable...
...every clone finds its target unerringly among those who would rather do a lace-doily imitation of the Sun King of Pocantico Hills than risk "mistakes" by developing their own taste...
...Harvard would be a contradiction of all that great University stands for." In a somewhat different tone, the San Diego Union crowed that by "rejecting a scholarship from a Hitler henchman, Harvard hoists the college colors over German," adding "and is Herr Hitler's face crimson!" The New York Sun carried a letter from "an old Yale man" who said that "naturally and properly, I have always had a rather slight opinion of Harvard and all its works. That's all over now. I am as proud of Harvard as I am of Yale--nearly...