Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SURVEYING: First off for the 88-member body will be next week's campus-wide poll on the freshman housing lottery (see story on this page), which the council is conducting in cooperation with the College. The referendum results should provide a month of fodder for the council's residential specialists, who are expected to propose changes in lottery procedures which would affect the upcoming freshman ritual...
...prices do rise and China has to cope with major inflation, the complaints could be powerful fodder for Deng's opponents. Though no party official has publicly criticized his programs, some in the 24member Politburo are believed to have strong reservations about the policies. Chen Yun, chairman of the party's disciplinary commission, for example, is thought to favor Soviet- style economic planning and to oppose Deng's open-door policy to the West. Other party officials also distrust Deng's reforms because of their capitalistic flavor, but much of their opposition is rooted in self-interest. For Deng...
...sure to provide fodder for Democrats planning to use the fairness issue against Republicans in the fall. "You can be sure that if it checks out, we will put a copy of it in the mail to each of our candidates," says an aide to Congressman Tony Coelho of California, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee...
...collect fodder for his programs. Koppel says that he reads five to six newspapers a day, employs two research assistants and helps his producers plan each show. Even so, problems occur. Lord, the former executive producer, recalls a show that examined the abortion issue. "I cued him that we had thirty seconds left and Ted said to his guest. 'Well, we're going to have to abort this interview...
...like Kurt Weill's orphaned children. Ebb never wrote a lyric as clawing as the imaginary one cited above, but he revels in devising anthems of urban indomitability. Everything that outsiders hate about New York City-its grime and pace, its inhabitants' steamroller pugnacity-Ebb sees as fodder for his romantic cynicism. If a Kander-Ebb song rarely reveals deeper moods or meanings the second time around, it certainly holds the moment onstage, by intimidating the audience into forming a beleaguered, defiant community of New York chauvinists...