Word: limelighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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February 1972. A varsity athlete at Harvard must face the music. Not a professional, still the Harvard athlete is in the limelight and people and the media will be demanding. So this athlete learned when the hockey team for which he tended goal lost four straight games. I thought it had peaked after a Beanpot loss to B.U. when The Crimson compared my glove hand to that of Marv Throneberry. But the meaning of the term "humbled" was never clearer than on that Saturday afternoon in Ithaca when a lone voice in Cornell's Lynah Rink intoned, "Bertagna...
...nature of the profession is to follow after the limelight. If you're Tom Penders, a new El Dorado always beckons...
Only in the climactic maternal confrontation, which should be unbearably tender, does Howard falter. Tears wet his cheeks, but he does not really seem to weep. Perhaps this is because Audley's Volumnia is like a stage mother who has pushed her son into the limelight, not nurtured him for later glory...
...extent of influence it will have on other schools is not yet clear. If officials at other institutions revising their curricula are familiar with any other general education program, it is usually Harvard's. But sometimes they tend to feel bitter about what they see as Harvard's undeserved limelight. Nevertheless, phone calls continue to pour into University Hall requesting information on the Core. Schools as unlike Harvard as the University of Tampa and the University of Puget Sound are considering core curriculums. As Riesman notes, "The affluent started out wearing blue jeans, and now it has caught up with...
...started as a gaudy circus. When the House Select Committee on Assassinations was formed two years ago to investigate once again the killings of President John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., Congressmen vied for the limelight and fought with their abrasive chief counsel, Richard Sprague, who quit within a year. But, to the surprise of its early critics, the committee disciplined itself and did some meticulous though costly work (nearly $5 million by the end of this year). As its public hearings wind down, the committee's sober findings are reinforcing long established official conclusions about the deaths...