Word: bandwagoners
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...time wasted, and decided that they must carefully plot every moment of the next eight months if they are not to walk out in cap and gown turning around to see what they should have done. Unfailingly, there is a columnist every year that decides to jump on the bandwagon, to uproot a scribbled to-do list from his bulletin board and replant it on the editorial page of The Crimson, transformed into a 750-word published ultimatum of things that must be accomplished before one can graduate Harvard with a clear conscience/ peaceful spirit/ understanding of the importance...
...American category. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, once it became clear that it was time for grandiose societal assessment, Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair and co-founder of Spy magazine (a now-defunct ’80s irony pioneer), and the rest of the Carter bandwagon declared irony defunct. Carter announced to the media magazine Inside.com in mid-September that “it’s the end of the age of irony.” Which made sense as a prognostication when missing-person posters and soot covered Manhattan...
...this testimonial to Larry’s commitment to fighting global poverty leads one to believe that Larry is ready to jump on every bandwagon or support any compassionate-sounding idea, they will be sorely disappointed. Larry combines a soft heart with a hard head. Larry never stopped reminding any of us that a lack of rigor—a willingness to tolerate waste and even corruption—was not consistent with compassionate aims. Those who eschew rigorous analysis and high standards in devising policies to fight global poverty ultimately let down the children they are trying to help...
...Department, represents the starkest warning yet of a post-September 11th follow-up terrorist attack. Despite the non-specific nature of the FBI?s message, it was designed to make Americans sit up and take notice. And sit up we did: Newspapers were quick to leap on the panic bandwagon: RED ALERT, screamed the New York Post. TERRORIST ATTACKS IMMINENT, blared the Washington Post. Any latent fears were further fanned by the announcement Friday morning that an employee of NBC News in New York had tested positive for cutaneous anthrax...
...esoteric musical offshoot of political turmoil (in the case of punk, economic and social turmoil in late-1970’s Britain; in the case of indie, rebellion against traditional gender roles in music and disdain towards the mass marketing of an art form) was deliberately sold as bandwagon rebellion. As Bart Simpson said while the Smashing Pumpkins played in front of him at Lollapalooza, “making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel,” and through deliberate and contrived publicity, the UK-banned Never Mind the Bollocks became a No. 1 album...