Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government to help the Shah polish his regime's veneer of respectability--which is ironic, given the Shah's persecution of Iranian intellectuals. Harvard, one of the worst offenders, has signed contracts worth more than $1.5 million with the Iranian government since 1974, promising to help the Shah with urban development, health and educational projects. Edward L. Keenan '57, the new dean of the graduate school, is also a member of the governing board of the university named after the present Shah's father, who was arguably even more brutal than his son. University spokesmen contend that the presence...
...they have earned it. Much of the nation spent the spring thawing out from the coldest American winter in two centuries. Now, with a new President and a cautious Administration just entering its sixth month, the U.S. seems in full moral convalescence from the years that gave it assassinations, urban riots, a lost war, an abdicated President, severe recession, inflation and an oil embargo...
Mount Rainier, where Everest Climber Jim Whittaker took the members of his 1975 K-2 expedition for some pre-Himalayan conditioning. They can also try their skills on Yosemite's Rixon's pinnacle, a rock spire where an urban alpinist named George Willig developed the confidence that enabled him to conquer Manhattan's World Trade Center. Would-be birdmen can launch their hang gliders from Yosemite's Glacier Point for a 3,500-ft. descent to the park floor. Fishermen can cast their flies -and hopes-after the three-pound rainbow and cutthroat trout that make...
...well-heeled-and just about anyone else who yearns to break out of 9-to-5 humdrum into a space-age world of mesmeric lighting, Neronian dècor and, of course, music, music, music. They are the new breed of discothèque, moth-gathering hotpots of the urban night. Discomania is the latest passion of faddish, fickle American city dwellers, turning daytime Jekylls and Jacquelines into nocturnal and nonma-levolent Hydes and Heidis gyrating through smoke and decibels in a Cinderella world of self-stardom...
There is nothing sacred or familial about the book's characters. Doctors, architects, models, painters and intellectuals, they inhabit the chic world of urban haute bourgeoisie. Moral conventions and religious convictions have been replaced by easy sex and superficial nostalgia. At a party, two women sing the '40s hit Chattanooga Choo-Choo, while an argument ensues over whether there were three or four Andrews Sisters. Inane chat, vacuous stares, Bauhaus settings and Pucci puppets form a familiar narrative glaze...