Word: winging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current plan, which Library Director Susan Flannery will present to the City Council two weeks from today, would add a 55,000 square-foot wing onto the current 35,000 square-foot library, according to Jose Gomez-Ibanez, a Cambridge resident and Bok professor of urban planning and public policy in the Graduate School of Design...
...still ardently missed by many, many New Yorkers--Harvard Hall provides a welcome refuge from outside stresses (no less pronounced in and around Harvard Yard, perhaps, than in midtown Manhattan), a place for either relaxed conversation or solitary reflection, in which the human spirit can take wing and soar. Without a single exception that I know of, every one of the Club's 10,000-odd members takes pride in their Harvard Hall and delights in showing it off to guests; to them, even aware, as they are, of the club's need for more office space and bedrooms...
...Raving In Wind," presented in its Boston premiere, demonstrates the struggle Josa-Jones witnessed between two seabirds that each possessed a broken wing. Appearing unsatisfied with being tied to the ground, Josa-Jones seems to imitate the birds' exploration of movement and freedom despite their newfound limitations. The struggle is not only physical, however--heartbreaks and remorse from the past painfully weighed her down as she writhed and twisted across the stage throughout the performance...
...February 20, 1996, a demagogue was born in the state of New Hampshire. The fetus was conceived decades ago, metamorphosing in the politically nurturing setting of the White House into a right-wing, conservative speech writer under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. The American media was a second protective womb for the developing organism on CNN's "Crossfire" and in such conservative papers as the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, which voiced expressions of support for Barry Goldwater and Senator Joseph McCarthy. Finally, one week ago, the moment of emergence arrived, and out came Patrick J. Buchanan as New Hampshire...
Philadelphia's Temple University, meanwhile, has become the standard-bearer for the responsible wing of the Afrocentric movement under the leadership of Molefi Kete Asante. His department includes the leading Egyptologist Theophile Obenga, as well as professors of African dance and linguistics. All 35 students who have received doctorates from Temple's program easily found jobs. Says Asante: "This is the hottest degree in the country." There are now 215 black-studies programs of varying quality at colleges and universities around...