Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Leone, a senior adviser. "The contrast was striking. It was a metaphor for what is wrong with America. Reagan had the opportunities to talk about the future and he said nothing." Said Campaign Chairman James Johnson: "The most important thing that happened tonight was that Walter Mondale took command of the stage on which Ronald Reagan was standing." But the Reaganauts claimed victory too. Said Reagan's debate adviser, White House Aide Richard Darman: "Mondale needed a knockout and didn't even get a draw...
...servant and apprentice playboy Gaston. For the Baron, love is a sport--its victories to be savored like any triumph, its game rules as important as in any game, and its old conquests good only for colorful but dispassionate reminiscing. His servant Gaston, his name seemingly synonymous with the command "service" and too often, invoked with the same sensitivity, knows love only from the Baron's recounts and, as he laments, "from an occasional peak through the keyhole every year...
...tentative; he infused Lohengrin's valedictory to his swan with the wistful Italianate warmth of a love song. In the second act, he sang passionately as Lohengrin tries to protect Elsa, his betrothed, from Ortrud's Iago-like machinations. By the third act, he was in full command, delivering the difficult Grail narration, in which Lohengrin sorrowfully reveals his identity and his obligation to leave Elsa, with power and poignancy. It may not have been idiomatic, but it was elegant and persuasive...
...sorely disappointed. Though Democrats admittedly differ in their levels of liberalism, they still want less bombs and more social services, Ronald Reagan out of the White House, and, as the resounding chants of "Gerr-ee, Ger-ee" illustrated, they want the woman from Queens as their next second-in-command...
...apartheid as a system at war with our ideals of freedom and justice. Such people often stress the pervasive influence of Harvard on the society and argue that the effects of our divestment on world opinion could be substantial. My experience leads me to doubt this view. Harvard may command great respect for what it has accomplished in pursuit of its central mission of research and education; it does not have much influence, even with its own alumni, when it makes institutional statements on political questions such as corporate involvement in South Africa. Like it or not, the public knows...