Word: toure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...street. By the time they realize the mistake they're too drunk to leave, having already bought three six dollar Hurricanes with the accompanying souvenir glass. Perhaps this happened to the sailors, who sat at a table near the stage surrounded on three sides by a senior citizens tour group from Florida. They kept looking at each other, then at their drinks, then back at each other, while a pedestrian Dixieland group on the bandstand honked its way through the St. James Infirmary blues. Finally they got up and left, each carrying three souvenir glasses in individual plastic bags...
...TOUR GUIDE STARTS HER spiel in front of Mass Hall. "Part of this building contains freshmen rooms. Most freshmen live in Harvard Yard here, in entry-way groups of 15-20. Each group--and by the way, they're all co-ed--has its own proctor. After freshman year you'll live in one of the 12 residential Houses located down by the River or up by the old Radcliffe College...
...tour group shuffles on to the John Harvard statue-of-the-three-lies. "And here on the side is the Harvard seal, 'Veritas,' it means truth," the guide continues. "Behind me is the Science Center, where students take the computer test, pass the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, and take some of the science courses required by Harvard's Core Curriculum." Veritas, the Science Center, the QRR and the Core register amidst furious mental scribling...
...been performing for nearly 70 years, simply loves the stage. For her, the bus-and-truck is a succession of opening nights. The most fun she ever had in theater, she says, was one night in Davenport, Iowa, where we have just arrived, when she was on an earlier tour. The bus made it to the Adler theater, but the truck didn't. The cast had to improvise with furniture from the Blackhawk hotel down the street; for the sound of a telephone ringing, they used a cowbell...
...interest of stimulating discussion of Middle East diplomacy, which has been conspicuously neglected by the U.S. for the past several years, presents the following piece by former President Jimmy Carter, in which he advocates that just such a conference be convened. Carter is fresh from a 16-day tour of the area and meetings with the leaders of five countries -- Algeria, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, as well as Israel...