Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of us, it was a time of wild mood swings in which the dream-like unreality of a Harvard in near chaos was periodically trumped by the anxious reality of a draft lottery, if not a draft notice. The fey Brattle Street bohemian culture that greeted us in 1967--cool was defined as seeing "Casablanca" repeatedly during reading period--was superseded by the apocalyptic visions of "2001" and "Let It Bleed...
Race is not the only wild card that contradicts the soothing platitudes of the American mythology. America's foreign policy record, which is full of dubious achievements such as conducting illegal invasions, training death squads, engaging in economic sabotage and toppling democratically-elected governments, is frequently presented in a much different light. Professors or instructors who speak frankly about such incidents are scarce--most will parrot government propaganda about America's valiant struggle to promote democracy and free markets overseas. For instance, in discussions about the Vietnam War, students are asked to view the situation from the perspective of American...
Duncan was lucky; he caught and released several more fish that afternoon. Other trout aficionados will make the pilgrimage to Colorado's and Montana's world-renowned wild-trout streams this fishing season and come away skunked. The cause: the tail-blackening "whirling disease," a mysterious and usually fatal ailment that is spreading rapidly through prized trout populations of the Rocky Mountain West. In Colorado, where the rainbow is the mainstay of a $1 billion-a-year game-fishing industry, the disease has infected hatcheries, devastated trout on a prime stretch of the Colorado River and spilled into...
...other states. Not all trout are susceptible. Brown trout show signs of infection but seem to be weathering it, and fishing for browns is still good in most streams. For some reason the rainbows of the Rockies, which breed in cold mountain water and create the wild-trout populations so valued by anglers, are especially vulnerable...
Every spring, wild applause showers our assistant to the master, Susan Livingston. She rehearses night and day to produce an all-house musical production that's sold out every night and gets great reviews. Everybody in it--the tech crew, the cast, the orchestra--comes from our house. People you never thought would go near a stage belt out numbers with chutzpah to the cheers and laughter of their friends in the audience...