Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly, sports-writing can tend to be melodramatic. But how the Ryder Cup has managed to galvanize such a large segment of the American populace--the event was front page news across the country--is beyond me. According to NBC, a record 55 million viewers tuned in to watch the trans-Atlantic battle of our country clubs' finest. Add to that the 30,000 fans who gathered a dozen-deep to wave and cheer America...
...many of the players on the American team have expressed, its one thing to lose a tournament and miss that paycheck. But it's quite another to see the Ryder Cup--a 27-inch gold chalice with a tradition that dates back to the famous 1927 match between the "Yanks" and the "Brits"--leave for foreign soil...
...Harvard I sometimes forget about sacrifice, American idealism, true freedom. The self-important attitude of the place kind of does that to you. But when I'm at home in my New York mountains, with my brother who's a West Point cadet and my father who didn't go to college but served twice in Vietnam as a Marine, nothing seems more important than defending those things. Maybe I've just got a sentimental attachment to my brother's "Duty, Honor, Country" and my dad's "Semper Fideles." But I think it's more than that. In June...
...psychobiologist at Belmont's McLean Hospital, Kety will receive the Lasker Award, known as the "American Nobel," on Oct. 1. According to the foundation, roughly one-fourth of winners have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes...
That, of course, is why they're so incensed by the impact the social movements of the 1960s have had on American society and why continue to claim that the days before the 1960s were the "good old days...