Word: idol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicholas's memory, the older man is one other than Joe Namath, then two years away from leading the New York Jets to Super Bowl glory and becoming a generation's sports idol in the process...
...interestingly, Cox has an answer for those who would call Ely's advocacy of judicial self-restraint a cover for conservatism. The former Watergate special prosecutor notes that Ely's idol is Earl Warren--to whom Democracy and Distrust is dedicated and that in lionizing the Warren Court. Ely is "defending the most activist Court we ever...
...narrowed the choice down to Cornell or Harvard, and despite a personal plea for the Big Red from childhood idol Ken Dryden, brought his semi-flop, semi-stand up style to Cambridge...
DIED. Hoagy Carmichael, 82, composer of songs that influenced the Big Band sound of the 1930s and 1940s and made him a popular music idol; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A self-taught musician who briefly practiced law, Carmichael was captivated by the syncopated rhythm and improvisational style of Jazz Great Bix Beiderbecke. Carmichael's simple, unpretentious ballads began catching the public's ear in 1931 with his first hit, Star Dust. The more than 50 standards he wrote include Georgia on My Mind, Ole Buttermilk Sky, Lazybones, The Nearness of You and In the Cool, Cool, Cool...
...idol, because he did it all and never got a black eye." Of his own acting, he says: "My roles may have been comparatively easy, because I was generally the hoodlum, and I understood that type perfectly well. No strain...