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We began to chant, and to sway back and forth. "Smash ROTC, No Expansion: Smash ROTC. No Expansion." The noise on the steps increased. Suddenly it swelled and I saw a surging tidal wave of baby blue helmets, and baby-blue jackets criss-crossed wildly by thick brown clubs. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ARRESTING PARALLEL | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Because of, never despite, such affinities, Matisse's originality is always clear. It lay in his unique gift of pure color. He possessed to the nth degree the power of making a flat disk of yellow or a slice of viridian turn into a lemon or a leaf, bathed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Inventing a Sensory Utopia | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

A glacier is a river of ice fed by mountaintop snowfall. When the ice becomes thick and heavy enough, it starts to flow like an extremely viscous fluid, its uphill section always advancing, its end, or terminus, moving forward or back, depending on factors like how fast the terminus melts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Alaska's Speeding Glacier | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

While the surging glacier may bring disaster to Yakutat, it provides a rare opportunity for scientists to study a major geophysical event. Mayo sympathizes with the villagers yet can scarcely contain his excitement. "This is probably the largest natural alteration in oceans, glaciers, lakes and rivers to occur in our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Alaska's Speeding Glacier | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

In fact, getting burned is what being a Red Sox fan is all about. Many Bostonians will go to their graves muttering about Bucky Dent's pop-fly home run, Johnny Pesky's incompetent relay or the team's primal curse: the sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Terrific and the Pheenom | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

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