Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some students display a sort of spooky fascination with war and arms. Says Andrea McElderry, a history professor at the University of Louisville: "War is just 'in' now." At the University of Wisconsin, a student named Stephen Mackey says, a little extravagantly, "Fascination with the Viet Nam War has just gripped my generation. The males in my generation are just obsessed. Theoretically and strategically, the war was really good. We're getting away from the Viet Nam phobia." Mackey will join the Marines this spring...
...some rude jeers greeted the Weinberger doctrine. Luttwak, for example, called Weinberger's views "the equivalent of a doctor saying he will treat patients only if he is assured they will recover." Columnist William Safire headlined a scathing critique ONLY THE 'FUN' WARS, and New York Democrat Stephen Solarz, who heads the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, pointed out, "It is a formula for national paralysis if, before we ever use force, we need a Gallup poll showing that two-thirds of the American people are in favor...
...last November's Byte magazine. Bores, who facetiously dubbed Agat the Yabloko (Russian for apple), discovered that the Soviet machine performs some tasks 30% slower than an Apple. The Soviets would not be able to export Agat to the West, he says, "even if they gave it away." Stephen Bryen, a top Defense Department expert on technology trade, claims that the disk drive on the Agat often breaks down...
...weary audience secretly hopes that Isabeau and Navarre will never again be able to meet as two human beings, Ladyhawke is a refreshing change of pace from the quagmire of Police Academy II's and Friday the 13th, Part V's currently flooding the movies theaters. A touch of Stephen Spielberg would spice up the plot and quicken the pace but Broderick manages to fill in the gaps quite well all by himself...
...group's puzzling name actually dates back to its founding year, 1946. "A bunch of Kroks were sitting around thinking of things to call the group, some of which are too obscene to tell," says Stephen R. Cass '87, the Krok's historian, "but, one of them looked up at the emblem of the Hasty Pudding--a crocodile--and decided that the name could be a variation on the emblem...