Word: bandwagons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Trevor-Roper has already pointed out the major shortcomings of Carr's approach to history at great and devastating length in his own review of the book, but most of the points are very much worth making again, and Mr. Graubard by concentrating his fire on Carr's bandwagon dictum (that the historian is only successful who writes about and believes in the winning side), makes his denunciation of Carr more than mere reiteration...
...show of "pop art." Instead of the masters of abstractionism, he has gooey cakes of painted plaster by Claes Oldenburg, blown-up comic strips by Roy Lichtenstein, rearranged billboards by James Rosenquist, portraits of cans of soup by Andy Warhol. Janis has apparently spotted a new bandwagon-but he did not discover...
Last week came a real crusher in the humiliating House defeat of the Administration's farm program (see following story). In the hope that a farm-bill victory would set off a bandwagon movement for the rest of the Kennedy program, the Administration pulled out all the stops. "If we can pass the farm bill" said House Majority Leader Carl Albert,"it vill be downhill the rest of the session." But after the House vote, everything seemed to be slanting up. The Administration's plan for medical care for the aged was stalled in the House Ways...
Peabody graduated from Harvard School in 1948 after three years submarine service of the campaign newspaper, the "Peabody Bandwagon," relates his war records times his submarine surfaced ing parties, led by Peabody, to the enemy's vessels and engaged in hand-to-hand combat. For his deeds...Peabody was personally decorated by Secretary of the Navy Forrestal with the Silver Star...
...undergraduate living House, Peabody ranked around the middle of his class. guard on the varsity football team for three seasons. Named to every All-American team in 1941, he still remains Harvard's last All-American. This fact was mentioned in almost every news written about him. The "Peabody Bandwagon" adds: "He raised his weight from 165 to 195 pounds and added an inch and a half to his neck measurement with exercises which included standing on his head for long periods of time...