Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arboretum's more than 7,000 kinds of trees, shrubs and other plants are scattered throughout its 265 acre area. The hilly terrain hides most of the encroaching suburban buildings, but at the end of one path is a parking lot with graffiti on its back wall. Beyond the lot is a low concrete building resembling a factory. At a turn in another path a high-rise apartment building looms over the grounds...
Hockey Roundup: An assortment of high-profile Harvard administrators were seen in strange terrain during spring break. The Cambridge denizens--including Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57--traveled to Minnesota for the Harvard hockey team's appearance in the NCAA Final Four and were pleasantly surprised to see Harvard emerge victorious. The deans even flew back to Boston on the same early-morning plane as the hockey players...
Shirley Bradshaw, nee Valentine, could be a bit of a bore, and a one-woman play about her could degenerate into a dutiful journey through familiar terrain in the regions of feminist anger and mid-life crisis. But the beguiling comedy by Willy Russell (Educating Rita) that opened on Broadway last week has three invaluable things going for it: an unflagging sense of humor; an authenticity of language and logic that keeps the central character's conversation from ever turning into stand-up comedy or sermonette; and, foremost, a hugely likable performance by Pauline Collins (Upstairs, Downstairs...
...armed rebels threads its way over a mountain pass in northern Ethiopia. In the vehicles are members of a European medical team on their way to staff a hospital in territory captured by guerrillas. Thousands of miles away another medical corps travels with a caravan of packhorses through rugged terrain into Afghanistan. There its members will treat victims of the war between the Afghan resistance and the Soviet-backed government. At a headquarters building in Paris, shortwave-radio antennas turn toward Africa. A faraway voice reports that a cholera epidemic has struck refugees fleeing Mozambique's civil war. Within...
...Women's studies and the feminist movement in general were very influential on the growth of Black Studies," says Gates. "Where the disciplines meet is on the terrain of Black women's studies. When people were starting to say that Afro-American studies was going to die, what kept it from dying was the infusion of Black women's literature...