Word: knights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White Knight knows you hate politicians, and that you?ve got good reason to. They trade on your sense that the nation needs rescuing by a hero untainted by the stain of politics-as-usual ?- think Joan of Arc meets "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." The quintessential White Knight is the "Man on the White Horse," who quits a successful military career (or professional sports or show business, in less compelling versions) for politics. The White Knight?s secret is to always appear unlike "the rest of them," forced by patriotic duty to enter politics and save the nation from...
...considerable nostalgia ?- maybe a secret longing for a monarchy? ?- which gives political brats an electoral advantage that goes well beyond name recognition. Consider the dynastic allure of surnames such as Kennedy, Bush and Gandhi. (Of course it helps when the candidate can be at once Inheritor and White Knight, a political neophyte with an epic last name, such as India's Sonia Gandhi...
Virginia J. Beauregard '01 was elected president of the Harvard Computer Society and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals elected as its president Sarah A. Knight '00, who is also a Crimson editor...
...antithesis of the sort of ego-driven Washington bureau chief who stepped all over his reporters," says James McCartney, a 25-year Knight Ridder veteran columnist and reporter who worked under Boyd. "He was the best editor I ever...
...that Robert Skinner Boyd made a rather large leap in 1993. The veteran political reporter stepped down as Knight Ridder's Washington Bureau Chief to become its Washington science writer...