Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another question. Have you ever made an erroneous statement?" Jokes Garrick: "I just did when I said 'subjective reality.' " Adler takes the idea a step further. "Let me give you an example of an erroneous statement: There are three mountains on the Eastern Shore of Maryland more than 5,000 feet high." The students laugh at such an absurd notion. Poking the same index finger on the table, Adler draws the distinction precisely. "A lie," he says, "is the difference between what you say and what you think; an erroneous statement is the difference between what you think...
Whether or not they believe that slogan, many Baltimoreans are inclined to agree with Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer that their mayor is "the best in the country." Like New York City's Koch, Schaefer is a lifelong bachelor who returns his city's enthusiasm with total attention and visceral emotion. He will storm, fume and curse when he feels Baltimore's interests have been slighted. He cheers frenetically at Colt and Oriole games. He hoards trinkets and tokens from municipal events. Schaefer has never left his birthplace and still shares a West Side row house with...
...California, but it was hardly invented there. In 1632, King Charles I of England leased a huge tract of land on Chesapeake Bay to Lord Baltimore. The rent: two Indian arrows annually, plus one-fifth of all the gold and silver found on the property. Lord Baltimore established Maryland Colony on the land and leased out parcels to settlers. Ground rents are still a tradition in Baltimore. More than half of the 50,000 homes in Baltimore's inner city are on leased land. The contracts run for 99 years; the average rent is $72 per year. The landowner...
...They've [Maryland] been in the semis the last three years. They know what it's like. They're seasoned team, and they're damn good," she said...
...alcohol has become a convenient way to mitigate public embarrassments. Betty Ford, Joan Kennedy, Billy Carter and others have reported that their unsteady, occasionally weird behavior resulted from drinking. That sort of confession can be exemplary and thus publicly useful. But in others it can also be opportunistic. Maryland's conservative Congressman Robert Bauman pleaded not guilty to making homosexual advances to a 16-year-old boy; Bauman, with his stricken wife standing behind him - her eyes glazed with that I-am-not-here-I-am-actually-in-Chicago look - told a press conference that booze made...