Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credit, the Brown (2-2, 1-1 Ivy) squad kept its head up and stayed in the game. After a flurry of shots, forward Jane Corcoran fed the puck to linemate Whitney Robbins, who slipped it by Harvard netminder Gillian D'Souza at 8:45. The Brown duo swapped roles two minutes later, as Corcoran knocked Robbins' centering pass by D'Souza...
First Period--1, H, Ginny Simonds (Sandra Whyte) 0:52; 2, H, Kim Landry (Ceci Clark, Lauren Messmore) 1:06; 3, B, Whitney Robbins (Jane Corcoran) 8:41; 4, B, Corcoran (Robbins) 10:45; 5, H, Clark (unassisted). Penalties--B, Beth O'Donnell (tripping...
...master builder Robert Moses. The Power Broker is an obligatory book for understanding modern urban politics. In turning to L.B.J., Caro shifted his focus from how New York City works to what makes the nation run. The answer is not surprising. As Franklin Roosevelt's factotum Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran responded when Caro asked how the young L.B.J. gained power, "Money, kid. But you'll never be able to write about...
Caro's first Johnson volume, The Path to Power, was published in 1982 and proved Corcoran wrong. In comprehensive and forceful detail, it followed Johnson from the lonely Texas hill country, out from under the humiliating shadow of his failed father. The book ended with his unexpected defeat in a 1941 race for the U.S. Senate. The Path remained a best seller for three months and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction...
...soon as the dewlaps of Senator Helms' patriarchal wrath started shaking at its door, the Corcoran caved in and canceled Mapplethorpe's show. Unappeased, the ayatullah of North Carolina proposed a measure that would forbid the NEA to give money to "promote, disseminate or produce" anything "obscene or indecent" or derogatory of "the objects or beliefs of the adherents of a particular religion or non-religion" -- which, taken literally, comprises any image or belief of any kind, religious or secular...