Word: star
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that was one of my biggest thrills here. The only thing that comes even close is when my older brother flew out to see me play in the freshmen game against Yale." If he had never played sports again--which is not the case since he is now the star of the Leverett House basketball team--Jellison would still have plenty of good memories to look back on, including an impressive high school career...
...Things are looking up," Crimson coach Stephanie Walsh said following last night's meet. Walsh kept 12 of her athletes home last night, including breastroke star Adele Joel, a sophomore recovering from injuries...
...sore throat, a hot day, and a fast pace turned women's cross country star Darlene Beckford's trip to Florida Saturday into something less than a vacation...
After all, candidates from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's old-line liberal group, nabbed four of six school committee seats and four of nine city council slots. The CCA vote percentage was much higher than usual. David Sullivan, the CCA's rising star, finished far better than any liberal candidate in history, topping the total necessary for election by more than 200 votes on the first count--an unheard-of feat. A huge new liberal constituency--student voters--turned out for the first time, and about 800 new pro-rent control tenants went to the polls. There...
...sheer fact of the politics-show biz mingling may be no cause for worry. Still, too intimate a consortium would do the country no good. The electorate should remain a skeptical and demanding constituency, but the ubiquitous looming of star performers does tend to turn it into a distracted audience. The capacity to achieve effects by glitter and glamour is not likely to inspire politics toward greater integrity. Nor are theatrical atmospherics apt to move the public to examine more soberly issues that too few Americans take seriously even...