Word: calvinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Humorist Calvin Trillin at Beloit College, Beloit, Wis.: I have divided up the United States into two sections. One section is the part of the U.S. that had major league baseball before the Second World War. That's the ancien U.S., and the rest of the U.S. is the rest of the U.S. That's the second part that's called the expansion-team U.S. -- where we stand today. The way you can tell the difference is that the old U.S. still has regular European ethnic neighborhoods, and in an Italian restaurant in the ancien U.S., the waiters have names...
...school gets a little older, a littlemore mature, it's time to revisit the notion ofpublic service in this country," said AssociateDean Calvin M. Mosley, who has coordinated thepublic service loan forgiveness plan since itsinception in March...
...hemline hike in 1987? For starters, the modern woman who spends ten hours a week in the gym sculpting her legs with weights and aerobics wants to display the hard-earned results. "Usually a woman's leg is the last part of the body to go," observes the practical Calvin Klein. "There's a big change in the air about sexy, young clothes for the modern women of any age." If minis represent a middle-aged woman's best hope for a sexy look, they also provide fresh new ammo for leggy female yuppies confronting the much publicized man shortage...
...years and involved only three men, Frank Robinson, Maury Wills and Larry Doby. No team with a reasonable chance has ever been entrusted to a black. Typically, retired black stars become first-base coaches and clubhouse liaisons. In an infamous 1978 speech, former Senators Owner and lifelong Baseball Man Calvin Griffith told Minnesotans that he moved the team from Washington "when I found out you only had 15,000 blacks here. Black people don't go to ball games, but they'll fill up a rasslin' ring and put up such a chant, it'll scare you to death." Baseball...
...Still, the rhythms of change in the past century have displayed uncanny regularity. Schlesinger's theory, inherited in part from his father, is that people have absorbed their formative political values by the time they reach age 18 or so. Ronald Reagan reached that age during the years of Calvin Coolidge, whose portrait now hangs in the Cabinet room in the White House. John Kennedy came of age with the New Deal and World War II. Says Schlesinger: "In general, we have 30-year cycles based on generations. Just as the 1980s were a re- enactment of the 1950s...