Word: maximalism
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...gospel according to Peters, the most fundamental maxim is that ideas cannot be divorced from experience. Consequently, his book comes cloaked as an autobiography. As he ambles through the events of his life, Peters collects simple lessons and weaves them into a political creed. From his childhood in Charleston, W. Va., he developed an ideal of community values based on a willingness to share society's burdens. From his Army service, he picked up a lasting disdain for class distinctions. And a stint as a Peace Corps administrator left him with a sharp eye for the foibles of Government bureaucracies...
...home and abroad, about her early life. Only within the past few years has there been general agreement in the West on Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev's birth date, Jan. 5, 1932, and that she was born in the Siberian town of Rubtsovsk. Her father was a railroad engineer named Maxim Titorenko. That is about all there is to her official biography...
...Harvard Square branch of Bruegger's Bagel shops has decided to disprove this maxim...
...which goes to prove a simple maxim: all people who count in life have, at one time or another, formed a meaningful bond with a baseball team. With the fact firmly established that all real people are baseball fans, it becomes possible to analyze the concept of Opening Day in a proper context...
Leave it to a man named Lasse to direct the most scrupulously endearing Dog movie of the '80s. Hallstrom's hero is twelve-year-old Ingemar (Anton Glanzelius), a dour, dimpled soul who could live by the maxim: Expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed. A tabloid junkie, Ingemar scans headlines for catastrophes that might put his own aggrieved existence into perspective. Reading them helps Ingemar shrug off his own doglike life: "It could have been worse." So his Mom is ailing, and his beloved pooch is sent on a terminal vacation, and the town's toughest athlete...