Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only the most naive booster would argue that the bioengineering of farm animals and plants poses no risks. With plants, for instance, there is always the possibility that new traits could be accidentally transferred to wild relatives of domestic species. Theoretically, experiments with genes that confer resistance to disease or herbicides could create hardier weeds. Food safety is another legitimate concern. Products from genetically altered crops and livestock will require rigorous testing to ensure that they are harmless...
Earlier this year, some booster organization in New York got the idea of launching a campaign to make New Yorkers more polite. Talk about cockamamie ideas! What are they -- crazy? Do they think this is Illinois or Idaho or someplace? In the first place, the whole idea of a booster organization is as foreign to New York as Girl Scout cookies. (Yes, I know that thousands of Girl Scout cookies are sold every year in places like Queens and Staten Island. You think I'm a farmer or something?) I have never heard of a New York Chamber of Commerce...
...magazine was one of the milestones, as well as a chief booster, on the march of feminism in the '70s and '80s. But as feminism won more and more victories, Ms. allowed itself to become predictable and boring, losing the interest of both readers and advertisers. Eight months ago, it stopped publishing. Now Ms. is back, with a livelier appearance and a distinction rare in the magazine business: it does not accept or run ads. Arriving in subscribers' mailboxes this week is a revivified bimonthly that stresses the latest in feminist analysis and activism and that has a look resembling...
...would like to offer one correction to The Crimson's July 3 article about the recent measles immunization effort at UHS. The article stated that everyone born before 1957 who has never had measles should be immunized. Actually, only those born after 1957 and who have not had a booster since 1980 need immunization. Measles was so prevalent before the first vaccine was introduced in 1957 that those born before that time can be assumed to have natural immunity. An individual's immune status can be checked with a blood test, but it takes extra time...
...media monster. He knows there is something cancerous about American celebrity ("The spotlight," he says, "sheds a poison"), but he can't see that he himself will eventually succumb. In the '50s Winchell gets trounced by television while archrival Ed Sullivan becomes an unlikely Sunday-night institution. A scrappy booster of F.D.R.'s, Winchell gets flummoxed and outfoxed by Roy Cohn and the red- baiters. An anomaly, Winchell throws in his famous fedora and moves to a resentful retirement in Arizona. Herr's vision of Winchell's fate is a fitting postlude, balancing irony and sympathy. He knows that...