Word: surround
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IRONIES ABOUND, TOO, on the home front. Harvard, more than its Ivy rivals, stresses its commitment to Houses that are representative of the College; paradoxically, its preferential lottery insures that stereotypes will surround individual Houses and destroy the ideal of the microcosm. Harvard, in the words of Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, feels its free-choice system "helps to increase student satisfaction with their assignment," yet the one of five students sent to undesired Houses--ones where the racial group to which they belong may be proportionately outnumbered--no doubt feels more embittered than Yale's randomly assigned...
...clear-eyed enough to have seen, before anybody else, that the post-World War II U.S. had got caught up in a compulsive competition for status. The proof came in The Status Seekers (1959), a dissection of those Americans who, as the author put it, were "continually straining to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior rank they are claiming." Since that happened to include just about the entire U.S. population, the great status game, once focused, provoked a great many fears that it would damage the egalitarian ideal and hasten the evolution of sharp class lines. What none...
...John Paul would have none of it. Disregarding his ring of security guards, the Pope suddenly slipped through to touch the hands of those who had come to see him. His bodyguards, walking off without him, had to do a quick about face, regroup, then surround him again...
...March of 1983 Christo said he hopes to surround ten islands in Florida's Biscayne Bay with five and a half million square feet of pink fabric, an exploration of the interface between land and water. Environmentalists initially questioned the project because of possible damage to sea-grass, but an impact study disproved their concerns, he said...
...highest crime rates in the city. Blocks of buildings are burned out, homeless people camp in boarded-up tenements, small boys peddle angel dust on the streets. In the midst of this chaos, behind a cast-iron fence, three calm acres of grass and flowers surround a stately Tudor building. Students in blue and beige uniforms read in the shade of oak trees. "The oasis," as the facility is called by the community, is one of more than 100 federally funded Job Corps centers in the U.S. Inside its gates 263 young people, ages 16 to 22, mostly high school...