Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sparts descend on Anderson with all the vitriol of a permanently irrelevant sect. "Some of us, including the Spartacists," writes Tom Cowperthwaite, as if the two were somehow different, "have chosen not to wear every radical-sounding button on our chest (sic)..." But just sentences before, he accuses Anderson of hiding his politics to keep "his radical-chic image intact." Which is it. Tom-of-the-non-radical-chic-image? Alden Cavanagh, displaying the SYL's talent for historical discrimination, subtly equates Anderson's original letter with Hitler's Big Lie, and then oddly smears Anderson for having defended...
Librarian, I am cold, Pray you, undo this button, Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me. ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist "Chirp...
...Harvard, students have very few alternatives and opportunities if they are sincerely interested in the struggles of the oppressed. Some of us, including the Spartacists, have chosen not to wear every radical-sounding button on our chest as if it was the answer to the world's problems...
...Middle east, south Africa, and other "hotspots" are much more volatile, and thus more likely to cause itchy trigger fingers to edge toward The Button. Of the several dozen western nuclear alerts since the invention of atomic weapons, the majority have been in response to perceived threats in the Third World--not Europe...
...worried." The Pentagon is certain it can keep everything under control. It points out that F-4 Phantoms always fly in the vicinity of the missile as protective chase planes. In the event the Tomahawk strays from its course, the F-4 pilots can push a button and send the missile plummeting to the ground. Promises the Navy: "There is no possibility the cruise will ever crash into a city." But it still might shock the cowboys...