Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nelson Rockefeller found himself in a cruel predicament last week. Despite his long record of public service and philanthropy, insinuating leaks had ended any hope that his confirmation as Vice President would be a routine anointment. Instead, a long and partisan squabble was shaping up in Congress, and there seemed to be little that Rockefeller or the Ford Administration could do to head...
Moulton didn't hit it off that well. His one-sentence statement drew jeers from the partisan gallery, and the Council wanted the word from no less than President Bok. Bok said yesterday that he will respond to the Council by mail "sometime early next week...
Neither of the two teams made it into the World Series, so that pluvious contest will surely never attain the significance I wished for it in my dolor. But my disinterested effort to view a baseball game as historic certainly avoids the consternation that a partisan fan must confront when his team loses, and it may also be the more honorable attitude for the spectator to maintain in the crush of the pennant race. No justification beyond some stretched definition of civic pride exists for the vehement strain of chauvinism that some people, and I am one, hold...
...such times that I would like to label the anguishing defeat a historic contest and have done with partisan furor forever. But a conversion to such intellectual detachment would mean the adoption of other, more alien, sensibilities. Judging from the nature of disinterested baseball lovers at Harvard, I suspect I would have to learn how to read only those box-scores that are over ten years old, to develop a compassion for the charred skeleton of Connie Mack Stadium, to preserve the line- ups of the Hitless Wonders and the Whiz Kids, to prepare a comparison of Satchel Paige...
Since ice cream is good for you, it's lucky there are four ice cream stores in the Harvard Square area. Their relative merits are often the subject of partisan debate...