Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite popular with the class of '82. But don't jump to conclusions. Not all the freshmen emulate these macho studs. No, it's a well diversified and varied class. Many of them emulate comedians. In one hour I met six "wild and crazy guys" doing Steve Martin imitations, and another guy who introduced himself as "Hawkeye," a M*A*S*H* fiend, no doubt. I guess the most pitiful display of this T V -oriented class occurred when a big, burly, freshman football player did his impression of the "Incredible Hulk...
...Dillon (P), Treacy (P) 29:08; 3. Quinn (P) 29:12 4. Quinn (M) 29:14 5. Sheehan (H) 29:39 6. Martin (M) 29:44 7. Fitzsimmons (H) 29:45 8. Hartnett (P) 29:46 9. Meyer (H) 30:00 10. Murphy (H) 30:05 11. Eichner (H) 30:09 12. Pamaccione (M) 30:17 13. Wolff (M) 30:32 14. Descamps (M) 30:34 15. Morris (M) 30:38 16. Moulton (H) 30:39 17. Ball (P) 31:07 18. Lehan (P) 31:08 19. Hillyard (M) 31:25 20. McNulty...
Although the Justice Department could conceivably charge Martin with violating the U.S. Code for "gathering, transmitting or losing defense information," it probably will not. The FBI'S conclusion: the case against the careless diplomat should be dropped...
...literary accomplishment and for contributions to world peace. Writes Zuckerman: "The prizes cannot go, however great the importance of their contributions, to mathematicians, earth and marine scientists, astronomers, and many kinds of geologists and behavioral scientists." She notes that the rules have been bent a bit-for Radio Astronomers Martin Ryle and Anthony Hewish in 1974, and for Ethologists Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch in 1973. But still unlikely to be considered for the Nobel Prize are pioneers in exciting new fields like plate tectonics, a unified geological theory that explains continental drift, earthquakes, ocean trenches...
...Humberto Cardinal Medeiros asked how they were doing just before the papal conclave. Senator Edward Kennedy upon his return from Moscow discussed with House Speaker Tip O'Neill the Yankees' four-game "Boston Massacre," an event that the Boston Globe's Washington bureau chief, Martin Nolan, called a "tracheotomy of the soul." Explains an M.I.T. psychology professor: "We are of Boston, and the Red Sox are our champions...