Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a fine junior campaign--one in which he established new school records week in and week out--Harvard signalcaller Tom Yohe was beaten out by Yale QB Kelly Ryan for Ivy League Player of the Year honors...
That is exactly the response proposed by the Miami Herald's Tom Fiedler, who was the lead reporter in the stakeout that broke the Gary Hart-Donna Rice story. Last week Fiedler wrote in a column that the "character issue" was now being carried to "absurd" lengths. David Broder of the Washington Post, the paper that delivered the final blow to Hart, also fretted. "It's time to slow down and take another look at what we're doing," Broder wrote, "before more damage is done...
Celebrities have been the most visible exemplars of the trend. Just a few: Mimi Rogers, 32, and Tom Cruise, 25; Debra Winger, 32, and Timothy Hutton, 27; Olivia Newton-John, 39, and Matt Lattanzi, 28. But ordinary folks are doing it in droves, as Houston observes in the recently published Loving a Younger Man (Contemporary Books; $17.95). Among the couples she interviewed, Houston found that the woman is usually over 30, divorced (from an older man) and often has children. Her younger partner typically grew up with a working mother and has sisters who also have careers. "He's familiar...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, Tom Callahan, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...
...plus salaries. On campus, he claims, innovation and creativity have been subordinated to abstruse research, cranked out to satisfy doctoral requirements or a department chairman's notions of what will advance the discipline. As one proof, the author recalls a Modern Language Association project in which 18 scholars read Tom Sawyer backward to avoid being caught up in the story while they checked how often "Aunt Polly" is written as "aunty Polly...