Word: tumults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Academics Committee also asked that the College postpone meetings on concentrations until after spring break, so that "the now refreshed and rested freshmen [could] devote their complete attention to choosing their area of study." They said the current schedule forces students to think about their academic futures during the tumult of the housing lottery...
...film takes place on the fictional campus of Mission College, a Black school in the South, during Homecoming week, and the film attempts to capture both the joy and the tumult of Black college life. But Lee has put his movie together as if it were the last movie he would ever be allowed to make it's a confused, vicious, messy film...
...This tumult of passion, literature and coincidence belongs in the Dickensian tradition, and so does Ackroyd. The protagonist of his crowded and exuberant novel is another cursed poet, Charles Wychwood. One afternoon he comes across an old painting showing the marvellous boy as a middle-aged man. Curious, he begins to pore over some obscure manuscripts. They suggest that Chatterton faked his early death, then continued to write more verse under more assumed names, among them William Blake and Thomas Gray. "The greatest plagiarist in history?" inquires a colleague. "No!" Wychwood argues. "He was the greatest poet in history...
Gustav Husak came to power in extraordinary circumstances. He was installed as leader of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party in 1969, during the tumult of "normalization" that followed the Soviet-led invasion of his country the previous summer. Last week Husak, 74, exited under conditions that were even more extraordinary. By asking to step down as party chief and nominating fellow Politburo Member Milos Jakes, 65, to replace him, he became the first leader in Soviet-dominated East bloc history to give up power voluntarily...
...stock prices fluctuate wildly through most of the week, the crisis spotlights Washington' s failure to curb Government spending and borrowing. Few economists expect another Great Depression, but a recession is more likely now. -- In an exclusive interview, Treasury Secretary James Baker gives the Administration' s view of the tumult. -- One way or another, everyone is in the market, and anyone can lose. -- Wall Street' s investment houses brace for hard times. -- Some prescient and lucky investors survive the crash in fine shape. -- Six ways to curb America' s budget and trade deficits. -- 1929: the way it was the last...