Word: harper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Devaluation is becoming the mode. In The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam sees Camelot as an act of hubris created by overconfident young jerry-builders. In the current Harper's, the British journalist Henry Fairlie condemns Camelot as a sort of Washington, D.C., Disneyland that substituted the "politics of expectation" for the politics of performance. Just when the veneer is cracking and the gilt peeling, two members of Kennedy's "Irish Mafia," Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers, have come along with their ghostwriter, Joe McCarthy, to add another bestselling chorus to the Camelot legend...
...Little House books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Harper & Row; 8 vols., 95? each...
Sounder, by William Armstrong, Harper...
...huge roughneck who is fast enough to overhaul running backs downfield? He may be the first pick." Matuszak has been terrorizing opposing backs all season long. A punishing pass rusher, he is a "devastating force" who has "that special instinct for sensing where the play is going." Willie Harper, Nebraska, 6 ft. 3 in., 207 lbs., is also a prime prospect, but most scouts would recommend him as a linebacker rather than a defensive...
Johnny Rodgers, winner of the Heisman Trophy, and Nebraska teammate and lineman Rich Glover were named to the Associated Press All America team for 1972. Cornhusker defensive end Willie Harper also made the team...