Word: gammon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though 1988's graduates are deservedly getting their young lions' share of attention, commencement has always been a family affair -- and never more so than this year. At Immaculata College, near Philadelphia, Nora Gammon, 54, a mother of twelve children, proudly accepted her B.A. along with Daughter Laureen, 21. At New York City's Lehman College, Elyse Sanchez's brood of four proudly stood by while the 35-year-old welfare mother got her B.A. Elizabeth McCulla, 21, became the eighth in her family to graduate from William and Mary (Mom's and Dad's alma mater). Jesse Jackson stumped...
...faith and good works reinforce each other, Anglo pragmatism rubs shoulders with Latino magic, and John Wayne might peacefully coexist with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The spirits may stir up a gust of wind, a kind of Milagro airlift, to bring the good word to town. And a cowboy (James Gammon) with a forbidding face -- you figure him to be the Jack Palance villain from Shane -- may up and save your life. Nobody will get hurt, except in the pride. Finally, the village will erupt into an alfresco fiesta, and the bad cop (Christopher Walken) will smile conspiratorily...
...Prowler helped divert the Libyan-fired SA-5 Gammon missiles that touched off the skirmishing. After the incoming missiles were detected, the Prowler's five underwing jamming devices mimicked the radar signature of U.S. aircraft, creating dozens of false targets at a safe distance from U.S. ships. Meanwhile, the U.S.S. Ticonderoga's advanced electronic Aegis system scanned the gulf for enemy planes...
...Gammon's first book, Beyond the Sixth Game, the deluge of facts and choppy prose combine with a minimum of narrative flow that wears on even the most partisan of Red Sox fans. What works so effectively in a newspaper column does not please when extended over nearly three hundred pages...
...Instead, Abraham became caught up in a running storm of accusations about his book. The charges, ranging from sloppiness to fraud, continued to buffet him a fortnight ago at the American Historical Association convention in Chicago, where he found himself walled in by controversy. Commented A.H.A. Executive Director Samuel Gammon: "It's almost impossible to get involved and be neutral...