Word: carolinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harnett was one of the new breed of conservative Congressmen swept into office in the Reagan triumph of 1980. Once a Democrat, the South Carolinian switched par ties after George McGovern's nomination in 1972, and he carries with him some of the fervor of the convert. Though he helped Reagan win his budget battles last year, he was put in an agonizing predicament by the tax bill. "I'm philosophically opposed," drawled Hartnett the day before the vote. "You don't cut Government by giving it more money. You've got to starve the bureaucrats...
...itself-a world that, when depicted in a novel like William Melvin Kelley's dem (1967), comes off as pallid, literally colorless, and trapped. In Drylongso, an oral history collected by John Langston Gwaltney and published last July, Jackson Jordan Jr., a nearly 90-year-old black North Carolinian, puts it to white people rather kindly: "Pretending to know everything or just pretending to be better than you know you are must be a terrible strain on anybody...
...repay the society in which he climbed to become chairman of General Electric. And Citicorp's Walter Wriston, imbued with public commitment by his father, a university president who was also a high Government adviser. And A T & T's former Chairman John deButts, the courtly North Carolinian, who cherishes the Southern tradition of public service. And many more...
...other newcomer, Lamar Flatt, burn up the league; the 6-ft. 9-in South Carolinian never overcame his lack of speed. "I don't think there's any doubt Lamar can be a top player," McLaughlin says, but "he has to run and work on the Nautilus [weight-lifting machine] to realize his potential...