Word: fanaticize
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In view of this, a defense of Merle Haggard runs two risks. First of all, one doesn't want to be labelled a victim of some twisted pop decadence, a sort of latent Alice Cooper fanatic who took a wrong turn. Even worse, the whole thing threatens to suggest the...
Dynamite? Not quite. Instead of fizzing with life, Breslin's story usually sloshes like stale stout. He seems to miss the clipped confines of a newspaper column or magazine piece. Convincing evocations of blue-collar Saturday nights in Queens or of Bogside palaver in Londonderry stretch out until insights...
THE NUMBER of confirmed radicals here probably hovers somewhere around 200--perhaps half what it was at the peak of the 1969-70 activism. This number, though smaller, is still large enough to provide the initial spark for successful activiist campaigns. Moreover, most of the Harvard left is centralized in...
For the last four years I was more a photographer than anything else. I was, of course, a student, athlete, writer, friend, roommate, movie fanatic, filmmaker, Soviet scholar, and table hockey player, but all for fleeting moments only. The four years are very much over now, the sheepskin is irretrievably...
Wright's primary nonlegal passion coincides with that of his No. 1 client, Richard Nixon: he is a football fanatic. Like Nixon, Wright was a sometime college player (right end at Wesleyan in Connecticut). He says, "I'm prouder of having played than anything I've ever...