Word: ward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rosty" the reformer? No one who has watched Congressman Dan Rostenkowski cut a deal with a colleague or swing a golf club with a lobbyist has ever called him that. Indeed, as a former Chicago ward heeler and protege of the late Mayor Richard Daley, he seems to be the quintessential machine pol. Yet, by the peculiar dynamic of politics, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has become the point man for the most ambitious attempt ever at overhauling the loophole-laden tax code. "The reform hat I am wearing is not yet comfortable," Rostenkowski cheerfully confessed...
...within three years of her first tentative glides, Landry had assumed the role of tri-captain for the icewomen, while playing right wing on an all-senior first line with center Liz Ward and left wing Dinny Starr...
...half expect some Montezuma to sacrifice a throbbing heart off the top of that building," returning alumnus Ward Smith '60 commented about the imposing. Aztec looking structure...
...York residents Ward Smiths '60, whose son will be a sophomore next fall, seemed to put it all in perceptive. "Just because it was right a quarter of a century ago doesn't mean it should be that way in perpetuity. If Harvard was like it was in 1636 we'd be having lunch in a cowfield and going to a privy...
...Ward has no manifesto and wisely refuses to use Red as a convenient symbol of the wronged working class. With patience and faith, his hero emerges cold- forged by tragedy, observing that what sets one man apart from another is not brains or money but "what he will risk for love." Ward has taken a similar chance in an age of upwardly mobile fiction. Passion informs every page of this tale without cheapening or glorifying its difficult subjects. They may not build 'em like they used to, but Red Baker is a product that any working fella can damn well...