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...Nay to California's troglodytic former governor, Ronald Reagan, who was unable, by a little over 1000 votes, to win his duel with the ever-vulnerable Gerald Ford in one of the nation's most conservative Republican constituencies...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Knocking Them Off in New Hampshire | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

...this theory by rating various schools according to esoteric criteria, but for people here it's mostly a matter of whether you believe in your heart that Harvard is the best, or whether you don't. It certainly has bright students and top-notch faculty, but there are always nay-sayers...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: What Harvard Means | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...nay-sayers, though, are in their own way subscribers to the Best Theory. Their position is usually that Harvard is not The Best only because it has recently gone to the dogs. They assume that Harvard once occupied the s ate of grace from which it has fallen...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: What Harvard Means | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

Last week, however, Moynihan found himself playing the ogre once again. In two separate Security Council votes, on General Assembly membership for North and South Viet Nam, each time there were 13 ayes, one abstention and a lonely nay: Moynihan's. The reason for his vetoes was the Security Council's refusal even to consider the bid for membership of still another country-South Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Selective Universality | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

Leontes is impulsive and paranoid; and his jealousy, unlike Othello's is wholly internal, "begot upon itself." His "too hot, too hot!" speech should be sufficient preparation for nay audience. There is also a strong strain of immaturity in Leontes. Kahn underlines this at the very start by showing us Leontes and Polixenes, an almost twin-like pair, stripped to the waist. Trying to recapture their stripped to the waist, trying to recapture their boyhood by arm wrestling. When Leontes, a bit later, sees Polixenes and Hermione innocuously holding hand, he starts chewing on the end of the tie-cord...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Leontes Damages The Winter's Tale' | 8/5/1975 | See Source »

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