Word: fading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wasp upper middle class. The adaptation succeeded. But it also pointed up a significant difference between Cheever's striving suburbia and Gurney's blue- blood Buffa- lo: while many of Cheever's bedeviled characters are avidly accumulating, almost all of Gurney's etiolated aristocrats are watching the family fortune fade away...
...choice-oriented-system now and will continue to have one for some time to come. The Houses as a rule do nor represent microcosms of the College as a whole. Whether this is good or bad is open to debate. However, it is all-important that as the referendum fades into the past, residential issues don't fade as well North House still has no money for renovations. Mather is still crowded, and the list goes on. While our system is good, it isn't perfect. While it won't be random it can still be improved...
...ever been. Eliot does indeed have more than its share of students with conservative views, but for those of us who consider ourselves "liberals," (and that's with a small 'I'--the self-conscious "Liberal" Abramowitz misses is better off dead) Eliot has one advantage. We don't fade in to the gray background of future campaign aides, Senate staffers, and Post editors crowding other Houses--and the Crimson--sort of like "snow" on a TV set. We can count on engaging in arguments with intelligent, thoughtful people who happen to be conservatives. Not all voted for Reagan to protect...
...fade has begun. Consider the hero...
...columnists, on the same day, headlined their comments on the shooting with that phrase.) SYMBOL OF SUBTERRANEAN VENGEANCE, the Washington Post called Goetz. But no one remains a symbol, no story remains abstract forever. Mayors and editorialists can take heart: as soon as reality sets in, the glamour will fade, and the people will come to their senses...