Word: cohen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while helping to develop the program. "I would have loved to have something like this when I was a teacher," says McGowan, who taught social science at Manhattan's Collegiate School from 1984 to 1986. "The game actually makes taking a test enjoyable." Notes TIME Public Affairs Director Steve Cohen: "High school students are very important to TIME. We hope to get them interested in the news and to familiarize them with the range of topics available in the magazine...
...Noam Cohen's September 29 criticism of Mario Cuomo as a "paper tiger" is a misguided conclusion based on two flimsy assertions superficially examined in eight paragraphs...
...Cohen's foremost argument centers around Cuomo's involvement in the New York races for lieutenant governor and the U.S. Senate. Cohen's distaste for the candidates' "dull" and "boring" nature and lack of "discernible oratorical flair" seems ridiculous in a discussion which otherwise exhorts substance over "flash" as does Cohen's odd, death-wish request that Cuomo support for candidates which are a "threat to him" and "challenge his hold on the bully pulpit...
Next we turn to Cohen's assertion that Cuomo is "really the product of a packaging campaign--largely devoid of a political ideology." Admittedly, Cuomo is packaged as much as any national political candidate. However, unlike other candidates, Cuomo's media attention comes largely from the strong, confrontational stands he has been taking on issues in his speeches and in his writings. Cuomo is a man with national focus not because a blueprint designed by a small group of political operatives, but because he is a dynamic, thoughtful individual. Cohen is simply wrong--Cuomo does have a strong political ideology...
Mario Cumo is, indeed, one of "the saviors of American liberalism." He is an exciting leader, with strong beliefs, courage and conviction and has infused new excitement into an old political faith. Cohen sounds like a writer trying to say something unusual for the sake of being different; in making the attempt, he belies an ignorance of New York politics and Mario Cuomo. Marc A. Bodnick...