Word: polestar
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While Breitbart is a polestar to many Tea Partyers, his excesses have the potential to cause the movement embarrassment. "The smarter conservatives who know Breitbart regard him affectionately," says a plugged-in Republican player, "but they think he's a little out of it. In another age, the Big sites would have been produced on a mimeograph machine. I'd call him the first neo-crank...
...manslaughter to risk their lives to further the mad schemes of a foreigner who was ready to die in the hope of making a great lord of himself." They planned to pitch him overboard at night as he fiddled with his quadrant, trying to take a reading of the polestar...
...then there's the effect on the U.S. For more than 40 years the U.S.S.R. was the Great Other, the polestar by which the U.S. charted its course in the world. Now, with the Soviet Union virtually out of business abroad and breaking up at home, American foreign policy faces an identity crisis. It won't be as spectacular as the one dominating the news these past two weeks, but its outcome will be just as important...
...McCarthy. In the '70s there was a mass immigration of mugged liberals -- the neoconservatives. Communism acted on all these grouplets as a powerful unifying force. Whether you wanted an American Century or a minimal state, you could not be comfortable with Soviet aggrandizement. Lenin was anathema whether your philosophical polestar was Thomas Aquinas or Ayn Rand. Like an offensive guest at a lousy party, Communism drew together a lot of people who would otherwise have been standoffish...
...Crimson, 7-1 in League play, travels to the Polestar for a 7 p.m. concest against defending champion Penn. 8-0 in the Ivies. That game should determine the Ivy champion...