Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seize the advantages his surname affords. "People told me I'd be a fool not to," he says. "If people insist it's an unfair advantage, at some point you have to say, 'Who cares?' " His risky and risque performance as guest host of S.N.L. displayed the stage polish that runs in his family, aiming him toward a new career as a television personality...
...told them: `You can play poorly and win[against Harvard],'" Krzyzewski added. "I guessthat's the Polish way of getting your team firedup...
...Nevr-Dull," the inquisitor volunteered at one point, as they got off on the burnishing side of life. "I use Simichrome polish...
...enjoyed reading Joe Kahn's article on Derek Bok Friday, Jan. 10. Although the title suggested a news analysis on Bok's possible departure, the text was laughably mushy, from the "dawn of the Bok era" in paragraph eight through the "confidence and polish" Bok now demonstrates as he covers "all angles with ease and refinement...
Back when Joe Kahn was writing giddy letters of praise to his kindergarten teacher, Bok was refusing to cover angles (e.g. on divestiture or the numbers of women and minority students at Harvard) with students, face-to-face. Joe Kahn sees polish and refinement. I see a tenure of increasingly conservative backlash, including 1. a policy of exclusion. Of Skocpol from sociology (and perhaps political purging at the Law School), of women and minorities (of whom one report to the president suggested less of--they would be "happier" at "lesser institutions"), of medical workers from unions, of faculuty members from...