Word: joe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...known jokingly as "Henry David"--as in Henry David Thoreau, the literary patron saint of nature lovers and solitary souls. He took a passionate stand against paving the two-lane road into Terlingua Ranch. "We both worried about the destruction of mankind from too much emphasis on technology," says Joe La Follette, an English teacher and friend who joined David on long desert hikes. "But he didn't have a solution...
...brief flight and violent fall of Jessica, her father Lloyd and flight instructor Joe Reid was seized upon and transformed into a kind of modern morality tale of parents looking for meaning and morning shows searching for novelty. On talk radio and in coffee shops, her soaring spirit and tragic plunge were the subjects of outrage and debate. Overnight she became the poster child of parental and media exploitation, of an ethos that granted children too much freedom rather than too little, of a parental drive not content to let children be children. Many wondered whether the freedom to pursue...
...Wolfe's attack is evidence that our proud traditions are changing. No longer are leaders like Joe Moakley and Ted Kennedy able to keep uncooperative voices silent. For many its a sad fact--almost as if Wolfe burned down Fenway Park and slapped back up some pre-fab cousin of the Georgia Dome. A new, much less distinctive way of life, is taking over the city of Boston...
Impersonators of Pee Wee Herman, Cliff Claven, Joe Pesci and Frank Sinatra--who sang the 1950s classic "You've Got Me Under My Skin"--also took part in the 40-minute ceremony...
...When they put two runs up in the first inning, we could have packed it in," first-year coach Joe Walsh said. "After we lost that first game I knew we had our backs against the wall. But the kids responded real well...