Word: maderos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voice. Men were not famous but "famed," not powerful but "potent." High on the list of accolades was "able." All were masculine terms of approbation: the news in Homeric mode, demigods or villains on tiptoe. TIME's writers loved Homer's narrative techniques. Compound adjectives: Mexico's President Francisco Madero was "wild-eyed." The World War I German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was "long-whiskered." Public figures were tagged with mock-heroic identifying phrases. Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead was invariably "the duck-hunting dentist...
...addition to Wirth, Ratajczak, and Kay, the new nominees include: Charlotte Pierce Armstrong '49, a New York lawyer; Peter C. B. Bynoe, chair and chief executive of Chicagobased Telemat, Ltd.; Antonio Madero '58, founder and chief executive of Mexico's Corporacion Industrial San Luis; Frank N. Newman '63, vice chair and chief financial officer of BankAmerica; Anne H. Richardson '51, chair of Washington D.C.-based Reading is Fundamental; and Torsten N. Wiesel, President of Rockefeller University...