Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coin of the realm should be courage, concern and commitment, not crassness. If Mr. Lee plans to be a leader and address issues greater than concerns on campus, he will do well to look long and deep into himself and decide for what he really stands. Chris Cohan Trade Union Program
...this a lovely day? Jerome Kern once summed up Berlin's place in & American popular music by observing: "Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music." Way back when, George M. Cohan spotted the appeal of the man who had "named himself after an English actor and a German city." Berlin, said the Yankee doodle dandy, "writes a song with a good lyric, a lyric that rhymes, good music, music you don't have to dress up to listen to. He is uptown, but he is there with the old downtown hard sell...
...Cynthia Cohan, 39, a Los Angeles lawyer and mother of two, tolerates her Cherokee's inconveniences in return for the advantages it gives her in negotiating war-torn freeway lanes. Its "macho presence," she says, keeps snippy sports cars from cutting her off. The desert-fox image holds little appeal for Cohan, who uses the vehicle as an updated substitute for the hopelessly unchic Country Squire station wagon. But she admits to her own jeep fantasy: "When the big earthquake comes," she says, "I'm going to drive up and over the rubble...
...theme was "Americana" or something like that and the girls all dressed in skintight silver shake-your-stuff suits for a toe-tapping salute to George M. Cohan and for the evening gown competition each semi-finalist was escorted in a knockout dress beneath an archway of uplifted Naval Academy sabers and the cadets lucky enough to accompany the lovely ladies wore Good Humor Man ice-cream suits and Remedial Math dropjaw smiles like a bunch of meatheaded Varsity fullbacks strutting arm-in-arm with prospective Homecoming Queens and for the swimsuit competition the camera played fly-on-the-wall...
...favorite film was Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), a black-and-white musical biography of George M. Cohan that seemed to pop into color whenever Cagney laced on his tap shoes. "Once a song-and-dance man, always a song-and- dance man," said Cagney, who won his only Academy Award for the role. "Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell...