Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point out that they do not deride the value of healthy living, only the obsessive quality that now surrounds staying fat-free and well. "Because health has become synonymous with overall well- being, it has become an end in itself, a paramount aim of life," writes Barsky. In fact, keeping fit has become "quasi-religious" for some Americans, says Boston University Sociologist Peter Berger. With evangelistic fervor, Body-Building Impresario Jack La Lanne, 73, whose name adorns 60 health clubs on the East and West coasts, declares, "When you quit exercising, you let go. The devil will...
...sell was its connection to the South, its national ambitions called for a constant struggle to escape the South -- particularly the South's reputation for being backward and racist. In those days, the struggle did not always go well. A lot of Atlanta's residents were not, in fact, too busy to hate. Occasionally, they even found the time to toss dynamite in the direction of some of the people they hated...
That slogan presumably can't be featured a second time, though. In fact, Atlanta hasn't actually settled on a slogan for its next stage. In a Wall Street Journal piece last winter, John Helyar suggested that in the spirit of New York as the Big Apple and New Orleans as the Big Easy, Atlanta might be known as the Big Hustle, but the suggestion was not received warmly. The Chamber is temporarily using the slogan of the Convention and Visitors Bureau: "Look at Atlanta Now." It emphasizes the contemporary partly because a remarkable number of visitors, presumably oblivious...
...John Kennedy's death stunned the nation, it almost crazed some people in Massachusetts. Those who had been close to Kennedy, in fact or by association, felt as if the bullet had struck them -- people in Brookline, where Kennedy was born; in Boston, his political base; in state politics, still charged with the energies of his election. Michael Dukakis, born and raised in Brookline, was serving his first term in the legislature; he was among those exposed to the sharpest sense of loss. He had pointed to Kennedy's career as a model for his own -- written college advice...
...brilliance that disdains looking at books until the final exam, and then crams. He does not move in spurts, or take things at a gulp. He learned his lessons every day, and left time for other things. He boasts that he never stayed up all night to study -- in fact that he never stayed up all night for anything. He early established the arc of his own effort, and maintains that trajectory despite diversions and passing impulses. That is the story of his current campaign for the presidency, and of his first and only Boston marathon, run when...