Word: stalwarts
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...applause was equally thunderous from liberals and conservatives in the U.S. New York Times columnists Anthony Lewis, a staunch liberal, and William Safire, a stalwart conservative, hardly ever agree on anything, but both hailed Bush's plan in facing columns last week...
This year, however, Louisville is on the upswing. Four of the seven shows at the just completed festival seem sure to have further life; one is among the freshest, funniest and most poignant works seen on any U.S. stage this season. Though the writers included Broadway stalwart Arthur Kopit, novelist Harry Crews and columnist William F. Buckley Jr., the best script, aptly for Louisville's tradition of discovery, came from regional-theater veteran Constance Congdon, whose works have never been produced in New York City...
...MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT (CBS). Oliver Sacks' neurological case study of a failing mind and a stalwart heart comes to vibrant operatic life in Michael Nyman's deft minimalist setting...
...Eagles reclaimed Boston's bragging rights by rudely handing Harvard a 3-0 defeat in front of 20 stalwart fans who braved the freezing rain yesterday at Ohiri Field...
George Bush followed lockstep in his father's path: prep school, Yale, stalwart of the baseball team, Skull and Bones. Dukakis, on the other hand, broke with the expected pattern, deciding against Harvard in favor of Swarthmore, a small Quaker college near Philadelphia. A D in physics dissuaded him from studying medicine. Instead, he threw himself into politics, working for the 1951 election of Philadelphia reformist Mayor Joe Clark, his first taste of squeaky-clean government. Dukakis still did not have much of a social life -- no one remembers a steady girlfriend -- and he did not join any fraternities because...