Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Photeine Anagnostopoulos makes an announcement in the Winthrop House dining hall, it's a production. She spends ten minutes telling her friends she's too embarassed to say anything, but they clink their glasses anyway. Even before the hubbub has died down a crescendo of male voices begins chanting, "Photo, Photo," Photo sheepishly rises, buries her face in her hand, and grins. "Aw. you guys...
Ronald Reagan really is behaving like a chairman of the board. He is remarkably removed from the daily hubbub of the transition. He is plainly not aware of many of the details about the process and just as plainly uninterested in knowing about them. But it is he who decides-from instinct, from experience and from his trust in his advisers who make the recommendations...
There was much more to the hubbub than deliberate mystification. Meese insisted that the selection process was proceeding on schedule, and at least the first appointments are expected to be announced this week, about the time incoming Presidents generally disclose their choices. But there were strong indications that the "Reaganauts," as the transition aides have taken to calling themselves, were having unexpected trouble making some of their boss's first choices stick. That was surprising enough for an Administration-to-be that boasts it will bring efficient business-management techniques to Government. But it was even more surprising because...
Steel understands and displays Lippmann's virtues as a journalist: an elegant and supple prose style and a mind that quickly perceived the fundamental components of any issue or crisis. His celebrated Olympian detachment served him and his readers well; amid the hubbub and uproar of daily events, Lippmann could be counted on for the long view, for the dispassionate analysis that could somehow drown out all the noise around him. In Public Opinion (1922), his best book, he anticipated a problem that has grown worse through the years: How can democracy survive in a mass society, when...
Outside the Baltimore Convention Center, a picket's placard proclaimed: PRESIDENT CARTER, SEX DEVIATES AREN'T GOING TO TEACH MY KIDS. Read another poster: WHY ARE JIMMY AND ROSALYNN SPONSORING THIS ATTACK ON GOD'S PLAN? Scarcely seeming to notice the hubbub, and smiling as usual, the President entered the hall and urged the 671 delegates attending his White House conference to be the "catalyst for a new awareness in government of the importance of families and the needs of families...