Word: brendan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rediscovery, however, is not merely a matter of fashion and status seeking. It is more visceral than that. "We feel better," the architecture critic and preservationist Brendan Gill has written, "when we find ourselves in the presence of the past, with its evidence of the mingled aspirations and disappointments of our ancestors." Walking along an old street among old buildings, the implicit history and sense of continuity are both reassuring and invigorating. The graceful proportions of facades are not arbitrary but the result of craft wisdom worked out over generations of trial and error. The scale of buildings and streets...
...Yeah, I'm wearing my `Go to Hell, Yale' button," said Brendan Williams, a clerk at Campus Clothing. "I'm a townie, and my old man went to Harvard...
...students previously selected to attend theconference because they were involved inorganizing it are: Alex L. Bangs '88, KimberleyHarris '90, Theodore J. F. Lubke '89, Frederick J.Metters '88, Brian J. McGill '88, Brendan W.Randall '88, Marilynn J. Richtarik '88, Charles E.Ryan '89, Shustorovich, and Russell J. Wilcox...
That was, of course, a reference to one of the more memorable lines uttered during the Iran-contra hearings: Attorney Brendan Sullivan's notable "I am not a potted plant" response when Senator Daniel Inouye grew impatient with the lawyer's frequent objections and suggested that his client, Oliver North, should be the one to speak up. The fact that the President would remind his audiences even obliquely of the scandal that has seriously impaired his effectiveness signaled his rising optimism. Although the Wisconsin demonstrations had been carefully stage-managed, they reinforced Reagan's recovery from the doldrums inflicted...
...never tires of the great flood of paper rushing in upon him. None of the rest of us can imagine surviving the demands of such a career; Shawn flourishes." So wrote Brendan Gill a decade ago of longtime New Yorker Editor William Shawn, whose endless capacity for work and relentless curiosity helped fashion that magazine into a weekly mine of essay, fiction and humor. But last spring, after serving 35 years as editor, Shawn, 79, was ousted by the magazine's new owner, S.I. Newhouse of Conde Nast. Many thought Shawn's career was over. Not so. At the invitation...