Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This may sound kind of weird, but the reason I mention that story is because now, three-and-a-half years later, it succeeds better than anything else at summing up What Harvard Is All About...
Hmmmm. Does this pattern sound familiar? It's merely the road to academic success followed by the wise liberal arts student at Harvard. No need to resort to anything so crude as sleeping with your section leader or depositing large checks in a numbered account at Bay Banks. Sidle up to your most prominents professors and tell them what they want to hear. If you have any wits at all, hitching your wagon to enough academic engines can lead to a summer job, fellowships, and best of all, hot reccomendations for the grad school or job of your choice...
Wirthlin found that David Stockman, the bitter diarist who claims in his new book that the Reagan revolution failed, may be all wet. Americans feel Reagan's successes in reducing taxes and increasing opportunities are sound enough to rate as a revolution--or at least as a job very well done...
Would decorum be trampled and tradition flouted? Would speeches become superficially short, chopped into glib "sound-bites" for the nightly news? Or worse, would they be too long, as Senators postured on parochial issues for cable-TV addicts back home? And what if viewers discovered that "the world's greatest deliberative body" was often a crashing bore? Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana complained quite accurately that the Senate's archaic rules and long, meandering speeches would not air well. "Unlimited debate," Johnston reminded his colleagues, "is not pretty." But TV is everywhere in America, and because...
...twelve crew members shortened sail to handle the heavy winds. Suddenly, recalled First Mate John Flanagan, "a wall of wind and water" smashed into the Pride with devastating force. "In what seemed like slow motion the boat laid over to port," said Flanagan. There was no time to sound an alarm over the Pride's radio...