Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course the Harvard alumns weren't exactly displeased. Three anonymous members of the Class of 1930, ensconced with their spouses in Section 22, took advantage of the fine New Hampshire weather and the fine Crimson play to discuss the intricacies of the Harvard squad...
...their new EP, Changing the Weather, Persian Gulf comes across as sardonic rather than cynical, concerned rather than overbearing, slangy rather than sloppy. Persian Gulf is also one of the very few groups who not only manage to come out of a political sing-along number ("It's a Good Thing") in one piece, but, in the process, create a biting social chant ("that's the right thing to know too late...
...novel opens, the Soviets are about to buy an American supercomputer, a so-called Craig 1, from France, ostensibly to help them forecast the weather on the steppes of Siberia. In fact, the Soviets intend to use the machine, one of the world's most powerful, to get into Western data banks that contain American military and technological secrets. Rather than objecting to the supercomputer sale, U.S. intelligence officials decide to capitalize on it. They dispatch an M.I.T. scientist to Paris to plant a "softbomb," or programmed booby trap, in the computer's meteorologic software...
...people. Quentin's inferno has been stoked by his belief that love in its modern forms - friendship, political idealism, familial responsibility, courtly lust - can conquer all. As he discovers in remembered scenes with his dying father, his doting scold of a mother, his colleagues in fair and foul weather, his bitter first wife and Maggie, love conquers nothing but the lover. It drains him, proves him inadequate, drives him toward madness. Suffocated by Maggie's whims and paranoia, Quentin cannot feel even that signal emotion of the nice guy: guilt. He can only expel his last vestige...
...tourney finished on the outdoor courts yesterday. The cold fell on both teams equally, even though Harvard's two opponents came from warmer climes, Usher said. The Harvard squad has as little experience with the cold weather as their opponents this early in the year...