Word: naming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refuses to name names, but he rapidly explains his downsizing vision in mysterious language...
...book store, do you shop at the "young adult" section? When you sign an official document does your guardian have to sign it also? When you go away for the weekend, do you have to call your mother and tell her you got in safely? Are there name tags sewn in all your clothes? Have you thought about the PSATs recently? Do you and your friends dress exactly alike...
...regardless of which name students support on their president and vice-presidential ballot, the chances of true council progress are dim. This year's candidates have failed miserably at galvanizing, informing or interesting the student body. None of the candidates has offered a cohesive vision of council reform. Nor can any of the candidates truthfully claim support from a broad cross-section of the campus. And most troubling, none of the candidates has been able to evoke the confidence necessary to become a campus leader...
...consecrate him. But McCain, a rascal midshipman who graduated near the bottom of his class, had found his faith in a different standard, where glory is measured by commitment to causes larger than oneself. And if everyone around him was saying he had brought honor to his family name, he didn't yet have reason to believe it. "They are treating us like heroes," he told his Naval Academy roommate Chuck Larson when he got back to the States, "and all I did was get shot down and try to survive the best I could. I really want...
...advisers justify their early emphasis on biography by noting that George W. Bush entered the race with 100% name recognition, even if some folks still get him confused with his father. McCain came in a relative unknown, and so has had to introduce himself. Only by telling his story will he have any credibility when he starts saying what he would fight for, given the chance...