Word: dudeness
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...Michael Andrew Sullivan, also known as "Mickey the Dude," was elected to the city council. When he died in 1949, son Edward J. Sullivan, took over...
...Sullivans, in fact, are so prominent--and so well-loved--in Cambridge politics that in 1986 the chamber where the city council meets was renamed in their honor. Today, portraits of Mickey the Dude, Ed and Walter Sullivan hang above the rostrum in the Sullivan chamber...
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Sullivan's formal education ended in the fifth grade, and he got his first job at age 12 driving a six-horse team. In his early teens, Harvard students hung his nickname on him. Undergraduates dressed Mickey up in a tuxedo, and called him "the Dude." It stuck...
...late '70s. It was not altogether friendship at first sight. "We were definitely in different camps in school," says Berry. "((Mills)) was kind of the nerdy, preppie, straight-A student who hung out with the other straight-A students, and I was more the pot-smoking cool dude who hung around with the seedy element." As a teenager, Stipe wore unstylish corduroy pants with ribs as thick as ropes and drenched his hair with mustard. Despite that -- or perhaps because of it -- Buck found Stipe's "weird" taste in music appealing. All four eventually linked up at a party, discovered...