Word: warms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fogg is an absolutely failproof way to forget that you are at Harvard and about as frazzled as the appalling weather and your failing academics can make you. Its interior has a sunny but peaceful Mediterranean charm that at least allows you to pretend its warm outside. And on those truly horrid days you can always go and look at Toulouse-Lautrec's "The Hangover" whereupon you will undoubtedly be much consoled. And if even that doesn't work you may go and empathize with Van Gogh's absolutely terrifying self-portrait...
Jacoby blames the dismantling of America's public "intellectual plant" on the linked appeal of security and specialization. Instead of standing in the cold to criticize, writes Jacoby, today's young brains opt for the warm but stifling blanket of academe, where 50,000 positions in 1920 have mushroomed to 700,000, many of them offering the tenured safety of $40,000-plus salaries. On campus, he claims, innovation and creativity have been subordinated to abstruse research, cranked out to satisfy doctoral requirements or a department chairman's notions of what will advance the discipline. As one proof, the author...
...donned enough warm items to make me feel like a mummy...
...thought back to the 1981 AFC championship game between Cincinnati and San Diego, played in wind chill close to 50 below zero. San Diego, the warm weather team, lost its passing game. And the Bengals could run the football, and went to the Super Bowl as a result...
...there were some things against Yale right there. It was cold, the Elis would throw the ball too much, we could stop the run, and we also could rush like nobody's business. And Yale was used to playing warm weather. And losing in warm weather. Like in Hawaii...