Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reminded of Dukakis as I watched first term Sen. Slade Gorton(R-Wash.) go down to defeat on Tuesday night. Gorton is earnest, straight and wants to do it right. He is honest to a fault, it appears...
...Somebody has to dare oppose the favorite, the wealthiest," he said. "It's ironic that it falls to Republicans to oppose the rich and powerful. Somebody has to accept the high risk of defeat to keep winner decent and honest," Abt added...
When, a millimeter from final defeat (with the champagne already uncorked in the Angels' dressing room), Henderson hit that fifth game homer, I reacted as I never had before. I didn't cheer or jump; I wept--not a few tears stifled by the customs of manhood, but copiously. Then, alone again in a hotel room (this time in D.C.), I had to watch when Henderson, reaching for immortality, apparently won the Series with another homer in the 10th inning of game six, and, with two outs and nobody on, the Sox came--not once but four times--within...
What does it all mean? (We academics do have to ask that question after all.) Emily Vermeule, our great classicist and noted Sox fan, argued in 1978 that defeat had been inevitable because the Sox's epic matches the literary form of classical tragedy, where the hero must...
...open this week's notebook with a look at the performance of Harvard Captain Scott Collins in Saturday afternoon's 31-19 loss to Brown--a defeat that mathematically eliminated the gridders from Ivy League contention...